All governments across the globe are trying their best to test more people and to limit the virus from spreading. The Indian government has also been working proactively to test as many people as it can. According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, there are a total of 126 government approved and supported COVID-19 testing labs in India as on April 1. Also, 9 other labs are in the pipeline.
List of COVID-19 Testing Labs in India
Apart from these labs, some cities have only collection centers for taking samples of COVID-19 suspected patients. These include Gangtok (Sikkim), Leh (Ladakh), and Naharlagun (Arunachal Pradesh). – Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada – Sidhartha Medical College, Vijaywada – Govt. Medical College, Ananthpur – Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh – Jorhat Medical College, Jorhat – Silchar Medical College, Silchar – Fakkhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College, Barpeta – Indira Gandhi Institute Medical Sciences, Patna – Patna Medical College, Patna – Darbhanga Medical College, Darbhanga – Late Baliram Kashyap M Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur – MP Shah Govt Medical College, Jamnagar – Govt. Medical College, Surat – Govt. Medical College, Bhavnagar – Govt. Medical College, Vadodara – Govt. Medical College, Rajkot – BPS Govt. Medical College, Sonipat – Dr. Rajendra Prasad Govt. Medical College, Tanda – Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi – Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore – Shivamogga Institute of Medical Sciences, Shivamogga – Command Hospital (Air Force), Bengaluru – Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru – National Institute of Virology, Bangalore Field Unit, Bengaluru – Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Gulbarga – Govt. Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram – Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode – Govt. Medical College, Thrissur – Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram – Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvananthapuram – State Public Health Laboratory, Trivandrum – Inter University, Kottayam – Malabar Cancer Center, Thalassery – Central University of Kerala, Periye, Kasaragod – Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai – Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai – National Institute of Virology Field Unit, Mumbai – Armed Forces Medical College, Pune – BJ Medical College, Pune – Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur – Grant Medical College & Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai – Govt. Medical College, Aurangabad – V. M. Government Medical College, Solapur – Haffkine Institute, Mumbai – Shree Bhausaheb Hire Govt. Medical College, Dhule – Government Medical College, Miraj – National Institute for Research on Tribal Health, Jabalpur – Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore – Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal – Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal – All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneshwar – SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack – Govt. Medical College, Patiala – Dr. Sampurnan and Medical College, Jodhpur – Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar – RNT Medical College, Udaipur – SP Medical College, Bikaner – All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur – JLN Medical College, Ajmer – Govt. Medical College, Kota – Madras Medical College, Chennai – Govt. Theni Medical College, Theni – Tirunelveli Medical College, Tirunelveli – Govt. Medical College, Thiruvarur – Kumar Mangalam Govt. Medical College, Salem – Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore – Govt. Medical College, Villupuram – Madurai Medical College, Madurai – K A P Viswanatham Govt. Medical College, Trichy – Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad – Sir Ronald Ross of Tropical & Communicable Diseases, Hyderabad – Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad – Institute of Preventive Medicine, Hyderabad – Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh – Command Hospital, Lucknow – Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut – Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute, Lucknow – Uttar Pradesh University of Medical Sciences, Saifai – Regional Medical Research Centre, Gorakhpur – All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh – Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata – Midnapore Medical College, Midnapore – North Bengal Medical College, Darjeeling – School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata – Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh – Lady Hardinge Medical College – National Centre for Disease Control – Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital – Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences – Army Hospital Research & Referral – Command Hospital (NC) Udhampur – Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar – Govt. Medical College, Srinagar As stated above, there are 9 other labs that are in pipeline in various states including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh.
