Uttar Pradesh becomes first State in the country to start pool testing of corona virus samples
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17th Apr, 2020
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- Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to start pool testing of corona virus
- The move is aimed at speeding up the screening process and also bring down the cost of testing samples.
- State health department has also decided to carryout the audit of any death in state due to COVID-19.
- This facility is being expanded in all districts and initially 5 samples will be pooled. In the pool testing method, multiple swab samples are pooled together and tested.
- If the result of a collection of samples comes negative, then that means all the samples in that group are negative.
- However, if the result of one collection is found positive, then each of those samples is tested individually.
