Thyrocare Tech, Dr Lal Path Labs surge as pvt labs to conduct Covid-19 test

That apart, national laboratories have also been allowed to carry out clinical testing of Covid-19, as the number of cases went past 400 in India.

Healthcare stocks including Dr Lal Path Labs, and Thyrocare Technologies soared as much as 17.7 on the BSE on Monday, in an otherwise weak market, after the government allowed private laboritories to conduct blood tests for the coronavirus (Covid-19).

According to the guidelines issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research over the weekend, all private laboratories that have National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories accreditation for real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for RNA virus will only be allowed to conduct Covid-19 tests.

Individually, Thyrocare Technologies rebounded 17.15 per cent from the day's low to hit a high