HYDERABAD: The government appears to have decided to conduct only limited Covid-19 tests every day, if instructions doing the rounds in various districts are anything to go by.
Hence forth, only 50 tests should be conducted at each public health centres and urban health centres every day, while at community health centres, the limit has been fixed at 100. The highest number of daily tests – 200 – will be conducted at district general hospitals, as per the instructions, being relayed in WhatsApp groups administered by district administrations and district level health officials, to the field-level staff.
With Covid-19 taking a firm grip in the community, and the state complaining to the Centre that it does not have enough testing kits, the latest restrictions will reveal the true extent of Covid-19 spread in the state. It may be recalled that the Telangana High Court had repeatedly pulled up the state government for its poor testing rates following which testing…