U’khand pvt labs to conduct Covid tests

Dehradun: The Uttarakhand government on Friday said it has decided to allow private labs which have ICMR permission to test suspected Covid-19 cases. The decision was taken at a meeting of the state cabinet chaired by chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat. “Private labs which have the permission of the ICMR will be roped in through a proper tender process to test suspected Covid-19 cases in the state as we are going to need more testing labs,” state government spokesman and cabinet minister Madan Kaushik said. The tender process will be concluded within four days instead of 15 as decided earlier, Kaushik told reporters at the media briefing soon after the cabinet meeting. The cabinet decision came on a day when Uttarakhand reported more than one hundred coronavirus cases, the highest in a single day in the state so far. — PTI