COVID-19: Japan asks China to stop anal swab tests on its citizens

Mar 02, 2021

Tokyo [Japan], March 2 : Expressing concerns over the coronavirus testing methods, Japan has requested China not to subject Japanese citizens to anal COVID-19...

US State Department sued for concealing American diplomats' anal-swab testing in China

Aug 08, 2021

Washington, [US] August 8 : The US State Department has been sued by a country-based activist group over concealing the American diplomats' anal swab...

22 samples tested COVID-negative in Mizoram

Jul 01, 2020

Aizawl (Mizoram) [India], July 1 : All the swab tests conducted for COVID-19 on Tuesday resulted negative, informed the Department of Information and Public...

Nepal to allow private labs to test COVID-19 samples

Jun 14, 2020

Kathmandu [Nepal], June 14 : As throat swab samples started piling up in government-operated labs around the nation, the government of Nepal has decided...

Association of Medical Consultants, Mumbai opposes BMC's directions for physical examination before COVID-19 swab tests

May 22, 2020

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], May 22 : Association of Medical Consultants in Mumbai has opposed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) circular directing private practitioners not...

Meril manufactures commercial kits for CCMB's dry swab direct RT-PCR tests

Jun 02, 2021

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 2 : A simple and fast method of dry swab-based direct RT-PCR has been developed by CSIR's constituent lab Centre...