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- The ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) gave permission for the state of Uttar Pradesh to start pool testing of COVID-19.
- With this, UP has become the first state to start pool testing.
- Pool testing is being done in the state to increase the number of testing.
- Under pool testing, the samples will be mixed and tested.
- A pooled testing algorithm involves the PCR (polymerase chain reaction) screening of a specimen pool comprising multiple individual patient specimens.
- It is followed by individual testing only if a pool screens positive.
- As all individual samples in a negative pool are regarded as negative, it results in substantial cost savings when a large proportion of pools tests negative.
Need of Pool testing
- This will reduce the total test kits used to examine patients and treat them.
- It increases the testing capacity of a state.
- The pooling test samples is cost effective, especially for the countries with limited resources.
- It can be used to prevent community spread of the disease.
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