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Shocking! Thyrocare MD: Govt trying to control COVID-19 testing

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: October 29, 2020 13:52 IST

The active cases are on a continuous decline on a daily basis as India continued to maintain active cases ...

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The active cases are on a continuous decline on a daily basis as India continued to maintain active cases below 7 lakh, while total recoveries crossed 70 lakh.

With 49,881 new COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India's total cases surged to 80,40,203, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW).

In a shocking revelation made by A Velumani, founder and managing director of Thyrocare Technologies said,"Even though testing has been opened up, the government is still controlling private centre testing at district levels. It is happening more today than before. We have been told not to pick up samples in many districts in different states, claiming that we are reporting false positives"

Velumani further said that, around 2,000 of our samples are reduced every day across at least 100 districts because of this, and one of the motivations is obviously they don’t really want to show a higher positivity scorecard. They want to show a better scorecard.

Thyrocare is among the top five diagnostic centres in the country. 

Tags: Thyrocare TechnologiesMinistry Of Health And Family WelfareCoronavirusCovid-19
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