Gujarat HC questions state govt's decision to not allow private labs to conduct Covid-19 tests, asks whether this is meant to 'artificially control' data of number of coronavirus cases in state Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court has questioned the state government's decision to not allow private laboratories to conduct COVID-19 tests, saying whether this is meant to "artificially control" the data of number of coronavirus cases in the state.
It has directed the state to procure maximum testing kits to enable both private and government hospitals to carry out coronavirus tests at government rates.
A division bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and I J Vora in its order on Friday also said the argument that "more number of tests will lead to 70