List of Coronavirus testing center in India

New Delhi, Mar 12: The number of coronavirus patients in the country has risen to 73 with 13 fresh cases, including nine from Maharahtra and one each from Delhi, Ladakh and Uttar Pradesh as well as one foreign national, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

Giving a sate-wise breakup, the ministry said Delhi reported six positive cases and Uttar Pradesh 10. Karnataka has four cases, Maharashtra 11 and Ladakh three. Besides, Rajasthan, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab have reported one case each. Kerala has recorded 17 cases, including three patients who were discharged last month after they recovered from the infection declared a global pandemic. The total number of 73 confirmed cases includes 17 foreigners, 16 Italian tourists and one more foreigner whose nationality cannot be immediately ascertained, the ministry said.

As the contagious disease with flu-like symptoms spreads across the globe, the cabinet secretary has said states and Union Territories should invoke provisions of Section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897 so all advisories issued by the Union health ministry and state governments are enforceable.

Here is the list of 52 labs across India where coronavirus testing is available:

1. Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati
2. Andhra Medical College, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
3. GMC, Anantapur, AP
4. Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair, Andaman and Nicobar
5. Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati6. Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh
6. Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna
7. Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh
8. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Raipur
9. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Delhi
10. National Centre for Disease Control, Delhi
11. BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad
12. M.P.Shah Government Medical College, Jamnagar
13. Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Inst. of Med. Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana
14. BPS Govt Medical College, Sonipat
15. Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh
16. Dr.Rajendra Prasad Govt. Med. College, Kangra, Tanda, HP
17. Sher-e- Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar
18. Government Medical College, Jammu
19. MGM Medical College, Jamshedpur
20. Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bangalore
21. National Institute of Virology Field Unit Bangalore
22. Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore
23. Hassan Inst. of Med. Sciences, Hassan, Karnataka
24. Shimoga Inst. of Med. Sciences, Shivamogga, Karnataka
25. National Institute of Virology Field Unit, Kerala
26. Govt. Medical College, Thriuvananthapuram, Kerala
27. Govt. Medical College, Kozhikhode, Kerala
28. All India Institute Medical Sciences, Bhopal
29. National Institute of Research in Tribal Health (NIRTH), Jabalpur
30. NEIGRI of Health and Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya
31. Indira Gandhi Government Medical College, Nagpur
32. Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai
33. J N Inst. of Med. Sciences Hospital, Imphal-East, Manipur
34. Regional Medical Research Center, Bhubaneswar
35. Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry
36. Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab
37. Government Medical College, Amritsar
38. Sawai Man Singh, Jaipur
39. Dr. S.N Medical College, Jodhpur
40. Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar, Rajasthan
41. SP Med. College, Bikaner, Rajasthan
42. King's Institute of Preventive Medicine & Research, Chennai
43. Government Medical College, Theni
44. Government Medical College, Agartala
45. Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad
46. King's George Medical University, Lucknow
47. Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
48. Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh
49. Government Medical College, Haldwani
50. National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata
51. IPGMER, Kolkata