In a meeting chaired by Punjab governor and UT administrator VP Singh Badnore on Friday, it was decided that Chandigarh residents can get tested for Corona Virus at private lab SRL Diagnostic at a subsidized rate of ₹4,500.
Currently, the testing is being done at three government facilities—PGIMER, GMCH-32, and IMTECH, Sector 39.
The number of positive cases in Chandigarh has reached 23, including two new cases. One is a 50-year-old Dhanas man working as a sanitary attendant at the PGIMER and the other is a woman in her 50s from Sector 30.
Arun Gupta, principal secretary, UT administration, said a private lab will require three documents from a person requesting a COVID-19 test—prescription from a qualified physician, government photo-identification and a filled specimen referral form.
Gupta also said the central government has dispatched 4,800 rapid testing kits to Chandigarh, which will be utilised to test persons with influenza-like symptoms for more than seven days.
