{"id":213861,"date":"2020-06-06T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/06\/06\/mkg-ao-mlas-donate-truenat-test-machine\/"},"modified":"2020-06-06T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T13:16:07","slug":"mkg-ao-mlas-donate-truenat-test-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/06\/06\/mkg-ao-mlas-donate-truenat-test-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mkg: Ao MLAs donate TrueNat test machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/2020_6$large_ezib.jpg><\/p>\n<p>Cutting across party lines, 11 Ao legislators&#8211; 10 from Mokokchung and 1 from Dimapur, donated a TrueNat testing machine for Mokokchung district. With this Mokokchung district now has two TrueNat testing machines.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Rural Development minister Metsubo Jamir said &ldquo;All 11Ao legislators joined hands across party lines to contribute a TrueNat Covid 19 testing machine with capacity to test 48 samples at once, for the people of MKG.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The machine was handed over DC Mokokchung in the presence of Ao Senden president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) had recently issued a revised guidelines for TrueNat, a comprehensive assay for screening and testing for positive cases for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>As per the guidelines, all samples of Covid-19 suspect should be first tested by this assay, and later be subjected to confirmation by step 2.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2 is called RdRp gene confirmation assay, and if the sample tests positive through this it must be considered as true positive.<\/p>\n<p>As for the negative samples, they must be considered as true negatives. No further testing is needed for them, it said.<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mkg: Ao MLAs donate TrueNat test machine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}