Sign board directing patients to coronavirus OPD ward put up at the entrance of Kasturba Hospital in Mumbai
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Prashant Nakwe
Institute revises strategy to check spread of disease
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has revised its testing strategy to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Testing is now offered to all hospitalised patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (fever and cough and/or shortness of breath). Also, asymptomatic direct and high-risk contacts of a confirmed case should be tested once between day 5 and day 14 of coming into his/her contact.
As per the ICMR, direct and high-risk contact include those who live in the same household with a confirmed