Coronavirus testing centres in India

Test, test, test' is the WHO's prescription to restrict community spread of Covid19. Though India is currently following a restricted testing protocol, with the numbers rising, India may soon tap on 51 accredited private laboratories. Till then, check out the 62 accredited centres where you can test for Coronavirus.

With Covid-19 claiming its third victim and the number of reported cases across the country almost touching 150, the Indian Council for Medical Research is ramping up the country’s testing capacity to contain the pandemic, which is in its second phase in India.

Besides the 62 testing centres in the country (see map), the ICMR plans to tap into government-run Virus Research and Diagnostic Labs (VRDLs) as well as 51 private laboratories accredited to the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABLs).

According to the ICMR, there are presently 62 testing centres in India, with the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, acting as the 63rd centre. While nine VRDLs are being prepared to supplement testing capacity, the rest of the network is assisting in sample collection.

As of March 17, a total of 12,513 samples from 11,263 individuals have been tested for SARS-CoV2 (coronavirus), the Indian Council for Medical Research says. Out of these 129 people tested positive. The same number is pegged at 137 by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and 142 by independent monitoring agencies such as indiacovid19.org and John Hopkins University’s coronavirus tracker.

The following is a map of ICMR-designated coronavirus testing centres in India.

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State S.NO City Centre Total Cases (Deaths)**
Delhi (2) 1 New Delhi All India Institute Medical Sciences (AIIMS) 8 (1)
2 New Delhi National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC)
Maharashtra (3) 3 Nagpur Indira Gandhi Government Medical College 39 (1)
4 Mumbai National Institute of Virology (Enterovirus Research Centre)
5 Mumbai Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases
Rajasthan (5) 6 Jaipur Sawai Man Singh Hospital 4 (0)
7 Jodhpur Dr. S.N. Medical College
8 Jhalawar Jhalawar Medical College
9 Bikaner SP Medical College
10 Udaipur RNT Medical College
Tamil Nadu (4) 11 Chennai King’s Institute of Preventive Medicine and Research 1 (0)
12 Theni Government Medical College
13 Tirunelveli Tirunelveli Medical College
14 Thiruvaru Government Medical College
Uttar Pradesh (3) 15 Lucknow King’s George Medical University 15 (0)
16 Varanasi Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University
17 Aligarh Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College
Uttarakhand (1) 18 Haldwani Government Medical College 1 (0)
West Bengal (2) 19 Kolkata National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases
20 Kolkata IPGMER
Madhya Pradesh (2) 21 Bhopal All India Institute Medical Sciences (AIIMS) 0 (0)
22 Jabalpur National Institute of Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH)
Kerala (4) 23 Alappuzha National Institute of Virology, Vandanam 26 (0)
24 Thriuvananthapuram Government Medical College
25 Kozhikhode Government Medical College
26 Thrissur Government Medical College
Karnataka (5) 27 Bengaluru Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute 11 (1)
28 Bengaluru National Institute of Virology
29 Mysore Mysore Medical College and Research Institute
30 Hassan Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences
31 Shivmogga Shimoga Institute of Medical Sciences
Gujarat (2) 32 Ahmedabad BJ Medical College 0 (0)
33 Jamnagar M.P. Shah Government Medical College
Harayana (2) 34 Sonipat BPS Government Medical College 15 (0)
35 Rohtak Pandit BD Sharma PG Institute of Medical Sciences
Himachal Pradesh (2) 36 Shimla Indira Gandhi Medical College 0 (0)
37 Kangra Dr. Rajendra Prasad Government Medical College
Jammu and Kashmir* (3) 38 Srinagar Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences 9 (0)
39 Srinagar Government Medical College
40 Jammu Government Medical College
Jharkhand (1) 41 Jamshedpur MGM Medical College 0 (0)
Meghalaya (1) 42 Shillong NEIGRI of Health and Medical Sciences 0 (0)
Manipur (2) 43 Manipur JN Institute of Medical Sciences Hospital 0 (0)
44 Imphal Regional Institute of Medical Sciences
Odisha (1) 45 Bhubaneshwar Regional Medical Research Center 1 (0)
Punjab (2) 46 Patiala Government Medical College 1 (0)
47 Amritsar Government Medical College
Puducherry (1) 48 Puducherry JIPMER Hospital
Telangana (2) 49 Secunderabad Gandhi Medical College 5 (0)
50 Hyderabad Osmania Medical College
Tripura (1) 51 Agartala Government Medical College 0 (0)
Bihar (1) 52 Patna Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences 0 (0)
Chandigarh (1) 53 Chandigarh Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research 0 (0)
Chhattisgarh (1) 54 Raipur All India Institute Medical Sciences (AIIMS) 0 (0)
Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1) 55 Port Blair Regional Medical Research Center 0 (0)
Andhra Pradesh (4) 56 Tirupati Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences 1 (0)
57 Anantapur GMC
58 Vijayawada Sidhartha Medical College
59 Kakinada Rangaraya Medical College
Assam (4) 60 Guwahati Gauhati Medical College 0 (0)
61 Dibrugarh Regional Medical Research Center
62 Silchar Silchar Medical College
63 Jorhat Jorhat Medical College
Total  137 (3)

*Jammu and Kashmir listed as Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh by MoHFW || ** Number of cases and casualty figures in the last column are as of 8:00 am on March 18th
Sources – ICMR and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

Who should get tested?

Not everyone can be tested by government VRDLs. The ICMR has laid out specific inclusion criteria, which has been reiterated by government agencies:

  1. Symptomatic (fever, sore throat, running nose, dyspnea, etc) individuals returned from affected countries (China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Iran, Italy etc.)
  2. Close contacts of confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 infection.
  3. All individuals evacuated and quarantined from Wuhan, China and Diamond Princess ship, Japan

If you think you or someone you know should get tested, call the State Helpline Number or Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India’s 24×7 helpline 011-2397 8046. Otherwise, considering approaching a private healthcare professional for further guidance. 

The government is currently in stage 2 of its response and these criteria are likely to change if the response escalates. 

Sources – ICMR Circulars and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare

 

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