{"id":27898,"date":"2020-06-18T13:24:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=27898"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:24:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T07:54:38","slug":"delhi-govt-caps-rate-of-covid-19-test-at-rs-2400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27898","title":{"rendered":"Delhi govt caps rate of COVID-19 test at Rs 2,400"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11571781_Delhi-govt-caps-rate-of-COVID-19-test-at-Rs-2-400.html\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br \/>New Delhi<\/strong>:\u00a0The Delhi government has decided to cap the rate of COVID-19 RT-PCR test at Rs 2,400, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Delhi govt decided to cap the rates for Covid RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test @ Rs 2400\/- inclusive of all charges,&#8221; Sisodia tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the Ministry of Home Affairs had announced that the price of COVID-19 test in Delhi has been fixed at Rs 2,400 as suggested by a high-level committee set up by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday and now tests will be done via Rapid Antigen methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry&#8217;s spokesperson had said that to improve contact mapping in Delhi&#8217;s containment zones, health surveys have been started on Shah&#8217;s directions, and out of a population of 2,30,466 people in 242 containment zones, survey of 1,77,692 people was conducted between June 15 and 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remaining will be covered by June 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI New Delhi:\u00a0The Delhi government has decided to cap the rate of COVID-19 RT-PCR test at Rs 2,400, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Thursday. &#8220;Delhi govt decided to cap the rates for Covid RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) test @ Rs 2400\/- inclusive of all charges,&#8221; Sisodia tweeted. On Wednesday, the Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}