SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Testing: Status Update

Clinical Guidance for Management of Adult COVID-19 Patients

Home Isolation & Care for COVID-19 (Available in English, Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil & Telugu)

Advisory on Purposive Testing Strategy for COVID-19 in India (Version IX, dated 8th February 2023)

List of Rapid Antigen Test Kits for COVID-19, validated by ICMR

Performance evaluation of commercial kits for real time PCR for COVID-19 by ICMR identified validation centres

Advisory for COVID-19 Home Testing using Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs)

ICMR Approved real time PCR (RT-PCR) assays for detection of Omicron variant of SARS-COV-2

Next Generation Sequencing Capacity of India

Evidence Based Advisory in the Time of COVID-19 : Screening, Diagnosis & Management of Mucormycosis (Available in English & Hindi)

List of IgG ELISA/CLIA kits for COVID-19 validated by ICMR identified validation centres

Access to COVID-19 Health and Scientific Data

Evidence Based Advisory to address Inappropriate Use of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Patients

Advisory on Strategy for COVID-19 Testing in India (Version 6)

Remembering Our Colleagues

Manual for “Health Care Professionals” in providing “Psychosocial Support” to family members in bereavement in the time of COVID-19

Guidance document for psychosocial counselling for COVID-19 positive patients and their family members

Guidance Document for the Psychosocial Support for Health Care Workers during COVID-19 pandemic

Establishing of a network of Biorepositories in India

ICMR-DCGI Guidelines for Validation and Batch Testing of COVID-19 Diagnostic Kits

Enhancing India's Testing Capacity

Information for District-wise login credentials for rapid antigen testing for COVID-19

ICMR Specimen Referral Form for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2)

Specimen Referral Form (SRF) ID information for COVID-19 (SARS-CoV2), in RT-PCR app

Details of National Task Force (NTF) and its research groups meetings on COVID-19 (Diagnostic Group, Epidemiology & Surveillance Working Group (ESWG), Operational Research (OR) Group & Clinical Research Group (CRG))

Orientation on CHROMIC (Collaborative Health Research on Modelling-ICMR & lmperial College) project- a SIMULATOR

Guidance to enhance availability of COVID-19 testing kits and newer innovative testing solutions in India

Advisory on use of Dry Swab RNA Extraction Free RTPCR Method

List of antibody (IgM, IgG) based rapid tests

Inter Laboratory Quality Control (ILQC) for Molecular based Testing Laboratories for COVID-19

Evidence based ICMR advisory on molecular testing of COVID-19: Availability of testing platforms and their recommended use

Advisory on CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology-based SARS-COV-2 test

Advisory for use of Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CBNAAT)

Revised Guidelines for TrueNat testing for COVID-19

Evidence Based Advisory on Correlation of COVID-19 Disease Severity with Ct Values of the Real Time RT-PCR Test

TRUENAT/CBNAAT expedited approval for private hospitals and private labs

Guidelines for storage of respiratory specimens collected for COVID-19 diagnosis by RT PCR platforms in Government laboratories

Advisory on Use of Rapid Antigen Detection Test for COVID-19