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Babulkar assisted by Chief Standing Counsel, Paresh Tripathi, Assistant Solicitor General of India, Rakesh Thapliyal:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>At each border point, State Government shall establish quarantine centres. All such returnees who are coming from red zones shall be kept for a period of one week. Out of these quarantined persons, those who have necessary symptoms, as per the guidelines of ICMR, shall be tested for RT-PCR.<\/li>\n<li>Although rapid antibody test has not been approved by ICMR for diagnostic purposes, but since the result of this test is available in much less time, such tests can be used for surveillance purposes alone.<\/li>\n<li>Secretary,<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Health, Government of India has fairly admitted that this test can be done on an experiment basis at border points and subject to its success or failure will be implemented further or discontinued.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ICMR has approved a testing kit, called \u201cElisa\u201d Kit, under Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, which can be made available to the State Government. Such tests have already been performed in District Pauri Garhwal of Uttarakhand. Let it be done for surveillance purposes in other districts as well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, in view of the above, Court asks Advocate general to file a progress report in regard to the above stated points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matter to be listed on 02-06-2020. [Sachdanand Dabra v. UOI, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/dY5aux8m\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Utt 229 <\/b><\/a>, decided on 20-05-2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttaranchal High Court:\u00a0A Division Bench of Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ravindra Maithani, JJ., directed for the use of rapid antibody tests for surveillance <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[41527,39924,41528,40477,40932],"class_list":["post-229938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-border-points-of-uttarakhand","tag-covid-19","tag-covid-19-tests","tag-quarantine-centres","tag-rapid-antibody-tests"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Utt HC | Quarantine Centres to be setup at border points; 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