ICMR advisory

COVID-recovered patients should wait for six months for surgery procedures: ICMR advice

The experts said that surgeons should consider performing a non-urgent surgery on a COVID-recovered patient after at least six weeks of recovery date, adding that this will ensure faster healing.

May 31, 2021, 10:57 AM IST

COVID-19: ICMR issues advisory, asks states to desist from indiscriminate use of Plasma Therapy

The ICMR said that indiscriminate use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy should be avoided as it does not reduce mortality in COVID-19 patients.

Nov 18, 2020, 18:35 PM IST

ICMR issues advisory on Antigen detection test for COVID-19

One of the brief descriptions of the Standard Q COVID-19 Ag detection is that the test can be interpreted as positive or negative after 15 minutes of putting the sample into the well by appearance of test and control lines, which can be read with a naked eye, requiring no specialized equipment. 

Jun 15, 2020, 07:00 AM IST