No Symptoms Or Not At "High Risk"? Don't Get Tested, Says Centre | Read

Contacts of COVID-19 patients, unless identified as high-risk, don't need to be tested, the government's top medical body said today in a new advisory. Asymptomatic individuals in community settings, patients who stand discharged as per home isolation guidelines, also patients discharged from a COVID-19 facility and individuals undertaking inter-state domestic travel need not be tested, said the Indian Council of Medical Research or ICMR.