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1. The Indian Council of Medical Research advises states pause rapid tests over complaints of malfunctioning testing kits from China.
   2020-04-23 09:03:51 (First version)
2. The Indian Council of Medical Research advises states pause rapid tests after complaints of invalid results, possibly due to faulty operation of testing kits in West Bengal state of India.
   2020-04-23 13:03:51 (Update)
3. The Indian Council of Medical Research advises states to pause rapid tests for two days after complaints of invalid results.
   2020-04-23 21:03:46 (Update)
4. The Indian Council of Medical Research advises states to pause rapid tests for two days, following reports of invalid results.
   2020-04-26 03:03:44 (Update)
5. The Indian Council of Medical Research advises all states to suspend using COVID-19 rapid test kits for two days, after some kits were found to be faulty.
   (Current version)

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