lucknow since february 3 this year the virology laboratory at king georges medical university kgmu has been testing suspected samples for covid19 under the headship of microbiologist dr amita jain but in all these days the laboratorys technicians virologists and scientists attendants and research scholars have been working on war footing including sundays and holi to keep sample testing continuity as per dr jain these workers have not even asked for a days leave some of my staff has not even going home in six weeks and are living on the medical universitys campus they are fifteen such workers in my team who are involved in testing reporting sample management data entry and report preparation of the over 1250 samples we have tested since the start said dr jain those in the labs team include dr shantanu prakash danish nasar khan om prakash dr brij nath tewari dr anil kumar verma hricha mishra ajay pandey kamlesh kumar ashish kumar ravindra kumar ankit yadav azad ali harish chandra diwakar radheshyam and pankaj jaiswal