On 27th July, 2020 the Prime Minister of India virtually inaugurated three new Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) high-end testing laboratories for COVID-19 at which of the following places?

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Correct — (b) Kolkata, Noida, Mumbai. On 27 July 2020 PM Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated three ICMR high-throughput COVID-19 testing laboratories: ICMR-NICED at Kolkata, ICMR-NICPR at Noida (Uttar Pradesh) and ICMR-NIRRH at Mumbai. Together they were reported to add roughly 30,000 tests per day, sharply scaling up national testing capacity during the pandemic.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Only Kolkata is correct; the other two labs were at Noida and Mumbai, not New Delhi or Chennai.  (c) Tempting because Noida adjoins Delhi, but the lab was the ICMR-NICPR at Noida (UP), not New Delhi.  (d) Only Mumbai is correct; Chennai and Delhi were not among the three inaugurated sites (Kolkata and Noida were).

Concept: As COVID-19 caseloads rose in mid-2020, ICMR set up high-throughput ('high-end') testing labs — automated machines that process thousands of samples a day — to expand testing beyond routine RT-PCR centres. Three such labs were commissioned together on 27 July 2020.

State PCS 2020 Q59 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q59 — Current Affairs PYQ with Answer