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Buyers of self-test kits must provide Aadhaar card details: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar

Updated on: 17 January,2022 07:20 AM IST  |  Mumbai
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She further said that a total of 1,6,897 lakh people had done COVID-19 tests at home till Friday of which 3,549 people tested positive

Buyers of self-test kits must provide Aadhaar card details: Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar

COVID-19 self-test kits at a medical store in Sion. As of Friday, 1,6,897 lakh people had done rapid antigen test at home and 3,549 of them tested positive. File pic/Pradeep Dhivar

People purchasing COVID-19 self-testing kits will have to provide their Aadhaar card details to chemists so that they can maintain a record, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said on Saturday.


Addressing reporters, Pednekar said that if anyone tests positive for COVID-19, the information must be conveyed to the authorities and also updated online. “We have decided that everyone purchasing self-test kits will have to provide their Aadhaar card details to the chemists to maintain a record. If anyone tests positive they must inform the authorities and update this online,” said Peednekar.


She further said that a total of 1,6,897 lakh people had done COVID-19 tests at home till Friday of which 3,549 people tested positive.


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