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Cost of COVID-19 tests in private labs may further go down: Minister

Hyderabad, Nov 20 (UNI) Telangana Health Minister Etela Rajender has hinted that the cost of COVID -19 tests in private labs may go down further in near future from the current level of Rs 850 as fixed just recently.

"The cost of the RT-PCR, a real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, test was costing thousands till now in those private labs. We never wanted to permit private labs to test COVID as they charge exorbitantly, But, because of various reasons, we were compelled to permit them. The prices were beyond the reach of many common people.
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