{"id":9252,"date":"2020-04-18T19:25:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:38:57","slug":"covid-19-in-bengal-govt-applies-for-more-labs-to-conduct-tests-increase-number-in-coming-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/covid-19-in-bengal-govt-applies-for-more-labs-to-conduct-tests-increase-number-in-coming-days\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 in Bengal: govt applies for more labs to conduct tests, increase number in coming days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal government has applied for more centres for conducting COVID-19 tests in some more medical colleges and hospitals (MCH) in the state. These include RG Kar Medical College &amp; Hospital, Medical College &amp; Hospitals at Burdwan, Bankura and Purulia. Malda Medical College and Hospital will start testing for COVID-19 from Sunday, Sinha said. It has a capacity of doing 50 tests per day.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, tests are conducted at NICED, SSKM, Midnapore Medical College &amp; Hospital, North Bengal Medical College &amp; Hospital, School of Tropical Medicine, Apollo Hospital, Tata Medical Centre, Peerless Hospital and Suraksha.<\/p>\n<p>Sinha said that no laboratory in the state, including the big ones, have the capacity of conducting more than 100 tests for COVID-19 per day. The government is applying for more laboratories to be allowed for testing COVID-19 as it will help to reduce the time taken to transport the samples from far off places.<\/p>\n<p>The chief secretary said that to increase the number of tests, the government will ask healthcare personnel in state-run hospitals to work in double shifts.<\/p>\n<p>The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state at present is 178. The state will start rapid testing for Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the hotspots as soon as it receives the necessary kits from the Centre. The government hasn&#8217;t received any such kits yet, he added.<\/p>\n<p>West Bengal <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/government\/west-bengal-covid-19-testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">has been lagging behind other states in conducting tests<\/span><\/a>, and had conducted the lowest number of tests among the bigger states last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malda Medical College will start conducting tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":9253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[346,372,373],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"tag-coronavirus-in-kolkata","9":"tag-niced","10":"tag-sskm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}