Testing for community transmission began on 15 March. 65 laboratories of the Department of Health Research and the  Indian Council of Medical Research  (DHR-… Read more »

On 17 March, the   Union Ministry of Health   had decided to allow private pathology labs to test for COVID-19. The ministry official claimed that by allowin… Read more »

Initially, the labs tested samples only from those with a travel history to 12 countries designated as high-risk, or those who had come in contact with anyon… Read more »

The Union Health Ministry's war room and policy making team in New Delhi consists of the ministry's Emergency Medical Response Unit, the   Central … Read more »

The outbreak has been declared an epidemic in more than a dozen states and union territories, where provisions of the  Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897  have been… Read more »

Main articles:  Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (January–May 2020)  and  Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in India (June–December 2020)     … Read more »

The  COVID-19 pandemic in India  is part of the  worldwide pandemic  of  coronavirus disease 2019  ( COVID-19 ) caused by  severe acute respiratory syndrome … Read more »