noida a backlog of pending tests of covid19 has prompted gautam buddh nagar health department to send testing samples to aligarh coronavirus in india live updatesthe tests are being sent to the microbiology department of the jawaharlal nehru medical college jlmc in aligarh muslim university amu as the national centre for disease control ncdc is piled up with pending test reportswe have decided to use jlmc lab facilities at amu for the covid19 tests from gb nagar since we have this additional facility nearby the decision was taken to send collected samples to jlmc we began sending the samples to the college from friday march 20 with around 100 samples by sunday we had received 36 results out of which two tested positive from greater noida and 34 were negative said dr sunil dohare additional chief medical officer dohare added that the entire faculty of microbiology department is carrying out the lab test procedurewe dont know how many members are there in a team but the entire faculty of the microbiology lab is engaged in the sample testing process he said on sunday total travellers that were kept under surveillance were 1657 out of whom 297 samples were collected 8 were positive while 221 negative according to sources results of 69 people are awaitedabout 134 are hospitalised which include 7 positive at gims one is a tour guide from noida who is being treated in delhi 36 under observation at dr ambedkar scst hostel in gautam buddh university noida 88 under observation in new district hospital building in sector 39 and 3 at child pgi hospital in sector 30