Over 10 lakh 12 thousand COVID samples were tested in the country in the last 24 hours. India has witnessed significant rise in it’s COVID testing capacity in the last 5 months. From just 160 labs testing Covid samples on 23rd of March this year, the country today has 1614 labs. Out of these 1019 are government labs while remaining 595 are private. So far, with an overall testing figure of nearly 4 crore 43 lakh 37 thousand, the nation has also been able to maintain a remarkably low positivity rate of around 8.5 per cent. Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have recorded a positivity rate even lower than 5 per cent. All States and Union Territories have surpassed the 140 tests per day over per million population as advised by the WHO. The Union Health Ministry informed that the remarkable feat has been achieved by rigorously following the ‘Test, Track and Treat’ strategy. The week-wise average daily tests conducted in the country has also witnessed a sharp increase from around 2.3 lakh in the first week of July to over 9 lakh in the current week.
