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States » SouthPosted at: May 28 2020 9:52PM


Kerala to ramp up testing to 3,000 per day: CM

Thiruvananthapuram, May 28 (UNI) Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday announced that with a large number of people coming back to Kerala from other States and Countries, the State has decided to ramp up the testing to 3,000 tests per day.
Addressing a press conference at the Government Secretariat this evening, the Chief Minister, who was responding to allegations that the State was not doing enough tests, said “Kerala has been following the ICMR guidelines in tackling the Covid pandemic and the much-acclaimed Kerala model is a result of that."
"The central Health Ministry itself has recognised this and publicly commended Kerala's work. Initially, the swab testing facility was available only at the Virology Institute at Alappuzha but now, due to the consistent efforts of the state government, we have 15 institutions approved by ICMR for conducting the tests."
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