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Like books and minds, a public health response in the midst of the steadily worsening novel coronavirus pandemic works best when it is open.

It’s been almost a week since the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the apex biomedical body on Covid-19 management, approved test kits from private manufacturers to supply real-time PCR testing PCR testing PCR Test Polymerase Chain Reaction tests analyse sequences of genetic material—DNA or RNA. This test is used for detecting several types of diseases.