Bhubaneswar: In a bid to make the process of contact tracing faster and following other case management processes swiftly, test results coming from various testing centres across the city will be uploaded to the ICMR portal on a real-time basis from August 6.
A meeting in this regard was conducted Tuesday led by Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Prem Chandra Chaudhary.
Chaudhry informed that from August 6, data related to test results of a day will be uploaded on the ICMR portal on timely and phase-wise manner.
One can know about the test results by going to cvanalytics.icmr.org.in/login.php.
Currently nearly 1,600 COVID-19 tests are being done at different testing centres across the city. However, getting reports on time and tracing the contacts have become the need of the hour. In Tuesday’s meeting representatives from 11 testing centres were present.
The meeting also discussed issues like compulsory registration (Control and Regulation Act-1990), trained technicians, pricing of tests and uploading to ICMR portal, among others.
All cases testing positive from city-based health-care institutions, but from other districts, will be uploaded in the ICMR portal.
As per the nature of COVID-19, timely management of cases is very crucial to contain the infection. Therefore, timely intimation of all such cases is pertinent as well. For reporting of these cases the data in the prescribed format, as used for updating in ICMR portal, may also be sent to BMC directly.
Abstract of all kinds of samples tested (RT-PCR, Antigen & True-NAAT) should be given in prescribed format by 7pm. Without the availability of sample referral form (SRF) no test samples should be processed, stand alone testing laboratories may be tagged with some hospitals/samples collection centres for generating SRFs. However, testing should be strictly subjected to availability of the SRFs.
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