It also urged private hospitals, offices, and public sector units to conduct antibody testing as a surveillance measure. Subsequent advisories from ICMR detailed antibody testing as “supplementary” to RT-PCR testing. On April 9, it added symptomatic patients in hotspots, large migration gatherings and evacuee centres to the testing strategy. Even to think about changing the testing strategy now… I cannot say.”May: Expanded protocolsOn May 18, ICMR added symptomatic migrants, hospitalised patients, frontline workers to the testing strategy. Along with the expanding testing strategy, facilities and types of kits also gradually increased.

Source: Indian Express June 24, 2020 23:03 UTC