₹500 per sample," he informed."Some selfish elements are trying to spread the rumour that private laboratories are not conducting COVID-19 tests.
Contrary to this, so far about 17 lakh COVID-19 tests have been conducted in private laboratories including more than 8 lakh 84 thousand RT-PCR tests," he added.
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