Covid Test Procedure In Kerala. Even so, officials are preparing for it to happen, with private laboratories authorized to test for the virus, freeing up more capacity for diagnosis and detection. Passengers with positive covid result will be sent to quarantine center for further processing.
A prescription from a registered medical practitioner is preferred for the test but not mandatory. With increase in number of cases, covid test reports are being delayed by almost a week to 10 days now. Some credit fast government action to quarantine people and shut borders.
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From now on, only antigen test result is required for discharging the patients who are under covid. Tests for viral presence are used to diagnose individual cases and to allow public health authorities to trace and contain outbreaks. Kerala chief minister pinarayi vijayan has promised to set up covid testing centres at all four international airports in the state even as the centre is finalising the evacuation of indian nationals abroad. While the results of symptomatic patients come within a day or two, the sentinel.
