VISAKHAPATNAM: The state government has reduced the price of RT-PCR test for Covid-19 to 350 from the existing 499. In a government order (GO), principal secretary (health and family welfare) Anil Kumar Singhal said the cost of Covid-19 testing kits and reagents has decreased due to increased availability of these consumables as well as competition among the manufacturing firms.
The technical committee convened on January 4 recommended a revision of RT-PCR test rates. After careful examination of the matter, the state government revised the test price to 350. It was as high as 2,900 in June 2020 when the first five private labs got approval from the Indian Council of Medical Research for Covid-19 test through RT-PCR mode.
