Bengaluru: State Health Minister K Sudhakar said that all government and private hospitals in the State have been instructed to stop testing asymptomatic patients for Covid – 19.
“All government and private hospitals in the State have been instructed to discontinue precautionary Covid 19 testing of asymptomatic patients prior to hospitalization, surgeries, scanning, and other medical procedures,” tweeted Sudhakar.
The letter shared by the Minister read, “This shall also include those patients who were earlier Covid-19 positive and have now recovered and been transferred to the earlier non-Covid ward for continued treatment.”
