Mysore/Mysuru, June 28 -- Mysuru's first private COVID-19 Testing Lab set up by JSS Medical College at JSS Hospital will be inaugurated online by Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa at 10.30 am tomorrow (June 29). This advanced laboratory will add to the existing laboratories that are testing samples round the clock.

At present, only the state-of-the-art Viral Research and Diagnostic Laboratory (VRDL) at the Department of Microbiology in Mysore Medical College and Research Institute (K.R. Hospital) has been authorised to test COVID-19 samples. This apart, "PARAKH- a Mobile Microbial Containment (BSL-3) Laboratory developed by Defence Food Research Laboratory which has been stationed at the K.R. Hospital premises too tests samples.

Also, the...