Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr. Harsh Vardhan on June 18, 2020 launched India’s first mobile lab (I-LAB) for COVID-19 testing to promote last mile testing access in rural India.
The Infectious Disease Diag Lab (I-LAB) is supported by Department of Biotechnology under the Covid command strategy.
This mobile lab will be deployed in the interior, inaccessible parts of the country. I-LAB has the capability to perform 25 RT-PCR and 300 ELISA test per day.
