Mumbai: Covid-19 cases rising, screening ordered, but no test kits

Updated On: 04 April, 2023 07:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Suraj Pandey

With active cases crossing 1,000, BMC last week asked all its dispensaries and hospitals to start testing all flu-like cases for Covid, but on ground there are no test kits; BMC hospitals have also run out of vaccines

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A person is tested for Covid at a civic facility in Dadar on September 21, 2020. File pic

AMID the present surge in Covid-19 cases, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) last week directed its dispensaries to test symptomatic patients as a precautionary measure. However, when mid-day visited five civic dispensaries across the city, it found that not one of them had kits. Krsnaa Diagnostics, which bagged the tender to provide diagnostic services to civic-run health facilities, is yet to provide Covid-19 kits to dispensaries, and neither the staff nor doctors have a clue when they will arrive.

As per the BMC health officials, the testing will soon begin as the service provider is making all the necessary arrangements. Since mid-February, the city has been witnessing a gradual rise in Covid-19 cases. Because of this surge, the active Covid case count in the city has touched 1,079 while that of the state is 3,532.

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