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Testing VRDLs for 2019-nCoV:
Total Government Laboratories Approved by ICMR: 114
Operational Laboratories for COVID19 Testing: N= 87
| Names of States | S.No | Names of Medical Colleges |
| Andhra Pradesh (3) | 1 | Sri Venkateswara Institute of Medical Sciences, Tirupati |
| 2 | Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada | |
| 3 | Sidhartha Medical College, Vijaywada, | |
| Assam (4) | 4 | Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati |
| 5 | Regional Medical Research Center, Dibrugarh | |
| 6 | Jorhat Medical College, Jorhat | |
| 7 | Silchar Medical College, Silchar | |
| Bihar (2) | 8 | Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna |
| 9 | Darbhanga Medical College | |
| Chandigarh (2) | 10 | Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh |
| 11 | Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh | |
| Chhattisgarh (2) | 12 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Raipur |
| 13 | Late Baliram Kashyap M Govt. Medical College, Jagdalpur | |
| Delhi (6) | 14 | All India Institute Medical Sciences |
| 15 | Lady Hardinge Medical College | |
| 16 | National Centre for Disease Control | |
| 17 | Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital | |
| 18 | Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences | |
| 19 | Army Hospital Research & Referral | |
| Gujarat (4) | 20 | BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad |
| 21 | MP Shah Govt Medical College, Jamnagar | |
| 22 | Govt. Medical College, Surat | |
| 23 | Govt. Medical College, Bhavnagar | |
| Haryana (2) | 24 | Pt. B.D. Sharma Post Graduate Inst. of Med. Sciences, Rohtak, Haryana |
| 25 | BPS Govt. Medical College, Sonipat | |
| Himachal Pradesh (2) | 26 | Indira Gandhi Medical College, Shimla |
| 27 | Dr. Rajendra Prasad Govt. Medical College, Tanda | |
| Jammu & Kashmir (4) | 28 | Govt. Medical College, Jammu |
| 29 | Command Hospital (NC) Udhampur | |
| 30 | Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar | |
| 31 | Govt. Medical College, Srinagar | |
| Jharkhand (1) | 32 | MGM Medical College & Hospital, Jamshedpur |
| Karnataka (7) | 33 | Hassan Inst. of Med. Sciences, Hassan |
| 34 | Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore | |
| 35 | Shimoga Instt. of Medical Sciences, Shivamoga Inst. Of Med. Sciences, Shivamogga | |
| 36 | Command Hospital (Air Force) Bengaluru | |
| 37 | Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute, Bengaluru | |
| 38 | National Institute of Virology, Bangalore Field Unit, Bengaluru | |
| 39 | Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Gulbarga | |
| Kerala (6) | 40 | National Institute of Virology Field Unit, Allapuzzha |
| 41 | Govt. Medical College, Thiruvanathapuram | |
| 42 | Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode | |
| 43 | Govt. Medical College, Thrissur | |
| 44 | Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology, Thiruvanathapuram | |
| 45 | Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute of Medical Sciences, Thiruvanathapuram | |
| Maharashtra (7) | 46 | National Institute of Virology, Pune |
| 47 | Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai | |
| 48 | Kasturba Hospital for Infectious Diseases, Mumbai | |
| 49 | National Institute of Virology Field Unit, Mumbai | |
| 50 | Armed Forces Medical College, Pune | |
| 51 | BJ Medical College, Pune | |
| 52 | Indira Gandhi Govt. Medical College, Nagpur | |
| Madhya Pradesh (4) | 53 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal |
| 54 | National Institute for Research on Tribal Health, Jabalpur | |
| 55 | Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Indore | |
| 56 | Govt. Medical College, Bhopal | |
| Manipur (2) | 57 | Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Med. Sciences, Imphal-East, Manipur |
| 58 | Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal | |
| Meghalaya (1) | 59 | North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health & Medical Sciences, Shillong, Meghalaya |
| Odisha (1) | 60 | Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneshwar |
| Puducherry (1) | 61 | Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Puducherry |
| Rajasthan (7) | 62 | Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur |
| 63 | Dr. Sampurnanand Medical College, Jodhpur | |
| 64 | Jhalawar Medical College, Jhalawar | |
| 65 | RNT Medical College, Udaipur | |
| 66 | SP Medical College, Bikaner | |
| 67 | All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur | |
| 68 | JLN Medical College, Ajmer | |
| Tamil Nadu (7) | 69 | King Institute of Preventive Medicine & Research, Chennai |
| 70 | Madras Medical College, Chennai | |
| 71 | Govt. Theni Medical College, Theni | |
| 72 | Tirunelveli Medical College, Tirunelveli | |
| 73 | Govt. Medical College, Thiruvarur | |
| 74 | Kumar Mangalam Govt. Medical College, Salem | |
| 75 | Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore | |
| 76 | Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad | |
| Telangana (1) | 77 | Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad |
| Tripura (1) | 78 | Government Medical College, Agartala |
| Uttar Pradesh (4) | 79 | King George Medical University, Lucknow |
| 80 | Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi | |
| 81 | Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh | |
| 82 | Command Hospital, Lucknow | |
| Uttarakhand (1) | 83 | Govt. Medical College, Haldwani |
| West Bengal (3) | 84 | National Institute of Cholera & Enteric Diseases, Kolkata |
| 85 | Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education & Research, kolkata | |
| 86 | Midnapore Medical College, Midnapore | |
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands (1) | 87 | Regional Medical Research Centre, Port Blair |
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Reference:
- https://dhr.gov.in/sites/default/files/COVID-19%20Testing%20Laboratories.pdf
- https://icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/Testing_sites_for_COVID19.pdf
