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

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)

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

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

Clinical Guidance for Management of Adult COVID-19 Patients

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

Advisory for COVID-19 testing during the second wave of the pandemic

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

Guidance for evaluation of novel applications for COVID-19

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

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))

Invitation for Expression of Interest for Validation of Rapid Antigen Detection Assays for COVID-19

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

List of companies / vendors of Saliva Based Rapid Antigen test kits for COVID-19 validated / being validated by ICMR

Advisory on use of Dry Swab RNA Extraction Free RTPCR Method

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

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

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

Joint Lettter for Enhancement of Testing Capacity-Reg

TRUENAT/CBNAAT expedited approval for private hospitals and private labs

Letter to Chief Secretary/ Administrator/ Advisor to Governor/ Advisor to Lt. Governor for Empowering citizens for testing of SARS-CoV-2 virus to save precious lives and contain the virus

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

Newer Additional Strategies for COVID-19 Testing