One Lakh Fake COVID-19 Test Reports in Kumbh Mela, Test Agencies Under Scanner

Haridwar: more than one lakh covid test reports during the Maha Kumbh Mela in Haridwar, Uttarakhand, were fake, revealed a media report.

During the Kumbh Mela, The Uttarakhand High Court had set a daily testing quota of 50,000 tests for the Kumbh devotees. 24 private labs, 14 labs by the district administration, and 10 by the Kumbh Mela administration were assigned the job for covid19 tests.

The issue of fake reports emerged when a person in Punjab received an SMS that his sample had been collected for a COVID-19 test. He alerted the ICMR through an email alleging his Aadhaar and mobile number had been misused for a fake test.

Later, The Uttarakhand government ordered a probe after a series of reports of fake Covid-19 tests by private laboratories during the Kumbh.

According to media reports, some of the other irregularities include…

  • A single phone number is used to register over 50 people
  • One Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kit was shown to have tested 700 samples,
  •  Almost 530 samples were taken from one house in Hardwar.
  • Bizarre house numbers were recorded such as H.No 56 Aligarh, H.No  76 Mumbai
  • Fake phone numbers are used, people in Kanpur, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and 18 other locations shared the same phone number.
  • 200 sample collectors employed by the agency were students and data entry operators based out of Rajasthan, who had never been to Haridwar.

As per officials, this is just the “tip of the iceberg”. The testing agency was paid Rs 350 per Rapid Antigen Test  and higher for RT-PCR tests and the scam could run into crores and test results by other agencies will also be brought under the scanner now,

The Haridwar District Magistrate said that if the claims of fake Covid reports are found true, an FIR will be registered and further action will be initiated.

City Development Updates…

1 2 3 4 5

Daily Quote

More Hyderabad News

1 2 3 4 5

Telangana News…

1 2 3 4 5

Andhra Pradesh News …

1 2 3 4 5

More National, Global News

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

You can get instant news and articles from Hyderabad Post

Click to Like/Follow/Subscribe us on Facebook – Twitter – Telegram – Instagram – WhatsApp – YouTube