4. Uttar Pradesh becomes first State in the country to start pool testing of corona virus samples

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to start pool testing of corona virus

Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to start pool testing of corona virus
The move is aimed at speeding up the screening process and also bring down the cost of testing samples.
State health department has also decided to carryout the audit of any death in state due to COVID-19.
This facility is being expanded in all districts and initially 5 samples will be pooled. In the pool testing method, multiple swab samples are pooled together and tested.
If the result of a collection of samples comes negative, then that means all the samples in that group are negative.
However, if the result of one collection is found positive, then each of those samples is tested individually.