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Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) installed Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machines for diagnostic services at two places across the city on Wednesday. It is the first time in India that a corporation had installed RT- PCR machines. We will soon install it at Layelka near Bijoygarh in South Kolkata," said a senior official of Health department of KMC. Recently, the civic workers used a ladder to reach the roof of an abandoned house at Baghajatin and found mosquito larvae there. The newly-acquired drones helped KMC spot water patches on the roofs of high-risebuildings, which serve as breeding grounds for mosquito larvae..