Corona: List Of Testing Centres In India

The Coronavirus is spreading rapidly all over the world and shows no sign of abatement. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified the outbreak as a pandemic and has asked countries to work towards its containment urgently and aggressively.

While most of us must be chanting corona at even the slightest onset of a sneeze or cough, and taking it very lightly, it is a cause of serious concern. And looking at the severity and the rate of infection, and the swift measures taken by the government, one must think that getting tested must be a pretty straightforward task. Go to your nearest healthcare, get tested, get quarantined and get the necessary treatment. However, it is not that simple.

There are only 52 designated-government testing centres all over India. Unlike South Korea, the government has not planned on mass testings. Only if you or anyone you know is suffering from any of the symptoms of the disease (fever, cough, running nose, breathlessness and chills), AND has travel history to any of the COVID-infected countries (China, Iran, Italy, Republic of Korea, France, Spain and Germany) or contact history, where you have been in close contact with a person known to have COVID-19, you can be suspected of getting infected and need to be tested.

List Of The 52 Testing Centres For Coronavirus In India
If you or anyone you know is suspected of COVID-19, one should go and get tested irrespective. The test is free and involves sampling of various bodily fluids. Here is the list of the 52 government-designated laboratories all over India, according to Indian Council Of Medical Research (ICMR).

State/UT List
Andhra Pradesh

1. Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati
2. Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh

Andaman & Nicobar islands
3. GMC, Anantapur, AP
4. Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar

Assam
5. Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati
6. Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh

Bihar
7. Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna

Chandigarh
8. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh

Chhattisgarh
9. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Raipur

Delhi-NCT
10. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Delhi
11. National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi

Gujarat
12. BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad
13. M.P.Shah Government Medical College, Jamnagar

Haryana
14. Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Inst. of Med. Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana
15. BPS Govt Medical College, Sonipat

Himachal Pradesh
16. Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
17. Dr.Rajendra Prasad Govt. Med. College, Kangra, Tanda, HP

Jammu and Kashmir
18. Sher‐e‐Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar
19. Government Medical College, Jammu

Jharkhand
20. MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur

Karnataka
21. Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore
22. National Institute of Virology Field Unit Bangalore
23. Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore
24. Hassan Inst. of Med. Sciences, Hassan, Karnataka
25. Shimoga Inst. of Med. Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka

Kerala
26. National Institute of Virology Field Unit, Kerala
27. Govt. Medical College, Thriuvananthapuram, Kerala
28. Govt. Medical College, Kozhikhode, Kerala

Madhya Pradesh
29. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Bhopal
30. National Institute of Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH), Jabalpur

Meghalaya
31. NEIGRI of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya

Maharashtra
32. Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur
33. Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai

Manipur
34. J N Inst. of Med. Sciences Hospital, Imphal‐East, Manipur

Odisha
35. Regional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswar

Puducherry
36. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry

Punjab
37. Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab
38. Government Medical College, Amritsar

Rajasthan
39. Sawai Man Singh, Jaipur
40. Dr. S.N Medical College, Jodhpur
41. Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar, Rajasthan
42. SP Med. College, Bikaner, Rajasthan

Tamil Nadu
43. King’s Institute of Preventive Medicine & Research, Chennai
44. Government Medical College, Theni

Tripura
45. Government Medical College, Agartala

Telangana
46. Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad

Uttar Pradesh
47. King’s George Medical University, Lucknow
48. Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
49. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh

Uttarakhand
50. Government Medical College, Haldwani

West Bengal
51. National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata
52. IPGMER, Kolkata

Now in India there is 136 Government and 59 private lab for testing coronavirus.