Harsh Vardhan Launches India's First Mobile Lab For COVID-19 Testing

The Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan launched India’s first mobile laboratory for COVID-19 testing in rural areas and in other far-flung and inaccessible areas of India.
The mobile lab, called I-Lab (Infectious Diseases Diagnostics Lab) – Rapid Response Mobile Laboratory, has been built in a record time of eight days.
It has been built by Andhra Pradesh Med-tech Zone (AMTZ) under DBT-AMTZ COMManD (COVID Medtech Manufacturing Development) Consortia.
I-Lab is supported by the Department of Biotechnology under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The unique lab has the capability to perform 25 RT-PCR tests per day, 300 ELISA tests per day and additional tests for TB, HIV as per CGHS rates.