COVID-19 testing, timeliness and positivity from ICMR’s laboratory surveillance network in India: Profile of 176 million individuals tested and 188 million tests, March 2020 to January 2021

Manickam Ponnaiah; Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader; Tarun Bhatnagar; Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj; Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar; Ramasamy Sabarinathan; Saravanakumar Velusamy; Yogesh Sabde; Harpreet Singh; Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0260979

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COVID-19 testing, timeliness and positivity from ICMR’s laboratory surveillance network in India: Profile of 176 million individuals tested and 188 million tests, March 2020 to January 2021

Manickam Ponnaiah ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Manickam Ponnaiah, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Manickam Ponnaiah, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-2614

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Tarun Bhatnagar,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Ramasamy Sabarinathan,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Saravanakumar Velusamy,

Roles Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Yogesh Sabde,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation ICMR National Institute for Research in Environmental Health, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
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Harpreet Singh,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Biomedical Informatics, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), New Delhi, India
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Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mmurhekar@gmail.com

Affiliation ICMR National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1720-7628

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COVID-19 testing, timeliness and positivity from ICMR’s laboratory surveillance network in India: Profile of 176 million individuals tested and 188 million tests, March 2020 to January 2021

Manickam Ponnaiah,
Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader,
Tarun Bhatnagar,
Jeromie Wesley Vivian Thangaraj,
Muthusamy Santhosh Kumar,
Ramasamy Sabarinathan,
Saravanakumar Velusamy,
Yogesh Sabde,
Harpreet Singh,
Manoj Vasanth Murhekar

Published: December 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260979

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