Delhi on Thursday reported 12,306 fresh Covid-19 cases, and 43 deaths
The Delhi government on Thursday revised the maximum prices of RT-PCR COVID-19 tests in the city. The maximum rate of Kovid test in private laboratories has now been fixed at Rs 300. 500 is the prescribed amount for RT-PCR samples collected from home.
See the order of the government here:
The earlier cost of RT-PCR test was Rs 500. The Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) in private facilities will cost Rs 100. Earlier, the cost of one RAT was Rs 300.
As per the order, the home collection and testing of samples will cost Rs 500 as against Rs 700 earlier. In government centers and hospitals, RT-PCR and rapid antigen tests are done free of cost.
The order also states that the cost of conventional RT-PCR tests for which samples are collected by government teams and then collected by private sector laboratories as required by districts or hospitals, will be Rs 200.
The cost of RT-PCR tests for which samples are collected by private laboratories for the government will be Rs 300.
In November 2020, the government had capped the rate of RT-PCR tests in private hospitals and laboratories at Rs 800 and further reduced it to Rs 500 in August last year.
The Health Department has directed all private hospitals and laboratories to display the revised rates at a prominent place within 24 hours. It has also asked private facilities to process samples within 12 hours of their receipt in laboratories. The department said that for positive samples, the results should be updated on the ICMR portal within 30 minutes of the samples being processed.
It added that the details of all negative samples should be on the portal within 24 hours of receipt of samples in the laboratory. On Thursday, Delhi recorded 12,306 fresh COVID-19 cases and 43 more deaths due to the viral disease, while the positivity rate fell to 21.48 per cent. Delhi had registered 35 deaths and 13,785 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday with a positivity rate of 23.86 per cent.
The city had recorded 28,867 COVID-19 cases last Thursday, the sharpest one-day spike since the start of the pandemic. After this the number came down to 24,383 on Friday, 20,718 on Saturday, 18,286 on Sunday, 12,527 on Monday and 11,684 on Tuesday.
The positivity rate stood at 30.6 per cent on Saturday, the highest so far in the ongoing wave of the pandemic, up from 27.9 per cent on Sunday, 28 per cent on Monday and 22.5 per cent on Tuesday. A total of 17,60,272 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the national capital so far. A total of 1,66,039 patients have become healthy, while the death toll from this disease is 25,503.
(PTI Input)
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