Four more Covid labs start functioning in Punjab

Medical Education and Research Minister OP Soni and Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu Health Minister today inaugurated Covid-19 testing labs at Punjab Biotechnology Incubator and Punjab Forensic Science Laboratory, Mohali. Four more laboratories becoming operational in the state.

The testing capacity had increased from 16,000 to 20,000 tests per day. The other two labs that became operational today are Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Jalandhar, and Viral Testing Lab at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana.

Each lab, expected to test 1,000 samples a day, had been set up with approvals from the Indian Council of Medical Research.

Punjab has become “first state in the country” where apart from the departments of health and medical education and research, the facilities of the home department (Forensic Science Laboratory at Mohali); animal husbandry department (Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, Jalandhar; GADVASU, Ludhiana; and Science and Technology Department (Punjab Biotechnology Incubator, Mohali) would be put to use for viral testing.