Six more laboratories have been approved for Chandigarh, Ranchi, Patna, Vishakhapatnam, Chennai and Jabalpur. The Department of Health Research has also prepared a programme for establishment of a virology network including a virology laboratory in each State. There are two apex laboratories viz. National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) at New Delhi and National Institute of Virology under Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) at Pune which are handling the outbreaks/epidemics. In view of the limited capacity for diagnosis of viral infections, ICMR has taken new initiatives to strengthen virology laboratories in various parts of the country in phased manner. Under this programme, virology laboratories have been established at Port Blair, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow, Manipal, Thiruvananthapuram, Jaipur, Raipur and Allapuzha (in Kerala).
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