Under leadership of Executive Director and with her constant, support and guidance Department of Microbiology started COVID-19 Sample collection and Rapid antigen testing services on 13/08/2020 for all the patients refereed from FLU OPD . MOU was also signed with ICMR Regional Medical Research centre, Gorakhpur for COVID-19 RT PCR testing of the samples. This service will provide rapid result to patients and health care workers in this current ongoing pandemic of COVID-19.