After much deliberation, the State health department has started the pool testing technique for sample testing of Covid-19 in the State. On the day, the lab of the Government Doon Medical College (GDMC) started employing this technique and probably from tomorrow the lab of medical college Haldwani would also switch over to this technique in an effort to increase its sample testing capacity.
The additional director state health department, Yugal Kishore Pant confirmed that the pool testing technique has started.
The health department hopes that the technique would help in increasing the testing capabilities from existing 500 per day to 2000. In the Pool technique, the samples of five persons are mixed together and then the test is done. If this test is found positive then tests of all the five is done, otherwise test of other pool of five is done.
