COVID-19 Daily Updates

Maharashtra government reduces RT-PCR testing charges; check revised rates

September 8, 2020, 3:31 PM

Sneha Shah | Mumbai

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Maharashtra government, on September 7 reduced the charges for RT-PCR (Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) COVID-19 tests conducted by private laboratories. As per the decision, the charges for picking test samples from collection sites have been reduced by around 40%.

Last month, the charges for private RT-PCR tests was fixed at Rs 1,900, which, currently has been reduced to Rs 1,200 by the state government.

Moreover, gathering samples from drive-through kiosks, COVID-19 care collection centres, hospitals, clinics, quarantine centres of laboratories will now cost Rs 1,600 as against earlier fixed rate of Rs 2,500.

Also read : Nagpur Collector Ravindra Thakare tests positive for Coronavirus

For home swab collection testing, the earlier rate that was fixed was Rs 2500, which has been slashed down to Rs 2,000 by the government, for private laboratories.

These revised charges are inclusive of all taxes. The government further clarified that no private laboratory can charge patients beyond these rates.

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Active COVID cases near 30,000 mark in Nagpur

Published

5 months ago

January 25, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally, on Tuesday, January 25, reached 5,43,064 (till 5 pm) as 4028 (972 from rural and 2956 from city) new cases were recorded in a single day.

Also, active COVID cases, as on Tuesday, could be seen inching closer to 30,000 mark in the district.

Six people lost their lives (one from rural and five from city) on Tuesday. Till now, 10,183 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in the district. Total tests taken were 11,377.

While patients who recovered on Tuesday were 2519, the total number of recovered patients stood at 503729.

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Nagpur reports 90 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

6 months ago

January 2, 2022

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur’s COVID-19 tally on Sunday, January 2 reached 4,94,193 (till 5 pm) as 90 (73 city, nine rural) more people tested positive for the virus.

Also, five patients recovered on Sunday taking the number of recoveries to 4,83,664.

Till now, 10123 people have lost their lives due to COVID in the district. As of now, there are 406 active COVID patients in the district.

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ALARMING! Nagpur reports 88 COVID cases in past 24 hours

Published

6 months ago

December 31, 2021

Radhika Dhawad | Nagpur

Nagpur registered 88 (81 from city) new COVID-19 positive cases on Friday, December 31. Nagpur previously had recorded as minimum as six cases on December 24.