India has gradual gradually ramped-up its testing capacity for covid 19 and conducted over 4.20 lakh tests in a day, the hig...
India has gradual gradually ramped-up its testing capacity for covid 19 and conducted over 4.20 lakh tests in a day, the highest ever, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday, crediting the increase in number of labs for the achievement. India had only one lab for testing samples for the disease in January but it has now increased the number to 1,301, including private labs. The Health Ministry said revised guidelines by ICMR and all-round efforts by states also aided in widespread testing.
Till Friday, a total of 1,58,49,068 tests for Covid-19 had had been done in the country.
India did 3.50 lakh tests every day over the last one week, the ministry said. With 4,20,898 samples tested in the past 24 hours, it added, the Tests Per Million (TPM) has increased to 11,485 and continue to maintain an upward trend. "The Union government has advised all state and UT governments to keep up the strategy of 'Test, Track and Treat' with aggressive testing which may lead to higher number of dinitially but would eventually achieve a decline as has been demonstrated after the central government's targeted ecovfforts in the NCT of Delhi," the ministry said in a statement. With increased testing of samples for Covid-19, the fatality rate has significantly dropped to 2.35 per cent on Saturday and the recovery rate has surged to 63.54 per cent. "India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world," the health ministry said. The downward trend in fatality rate means the collective efforts of the Centre and state and UT governments have checked the mortality due to Covid-19, it stated. A total of 8,49,431 Covid-19 patients have recovered.daily positive cases
Till Friday, a total of 1,58,49,068 tests for Covid-19 had had been done in the country.
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