The nation achieved another milestone in COVID testing by conducting nearly 15 lakh tests in the last 24 hours. With a cumulative testing figure of around 6 crore 89 lakh 28 thousand 440, India continues to be one of the countries across the world conducting the highest number of daily tests. Starting from just one testing lab at National Institute of Virology, Pune in January this year, the country today has one thousand 818 labs for testing Covid samples which includes one thousand 84 government and 734 private labs. Average daily tests have increased by nearly 4 times in a span of two months. It stands at around 12 lakh tests in the recent weeks. Tests done per million of the population have also risen manifold in a span of 2 months and currently stand at over 48 thousand per million of the population. Despite increase in testing the positivity rate remains low and currently hovers around 8.5 per cent. Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Manipur, Jharkhand and Telangana are among the states recording a positivity rate even lower than 5 percent.
