Over 10 lakh 28 thousand samples were tested for Covid-19 in the country in the last 24 hours. With this, the cumulative testing figure has risen to over 9 crore 22 lakh 54 thousand. The Central Government and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have scaled up the testing infrastructure in a calibrated manner. India’s testing capacity has touched 15 lakh per day ensuring easily accessible COVID19 tests for all. The Health Ministry has said that very high levels of testing lead to early identification, prompt isolation and effective treatment of COVID19 cases. It said, this also leads to low Fatality Rate. Starting from just one testing lab at National Institute of Virology at Pune, in January this year, the country today has one thousand 945 labs for testing samples for Covid-19 which includes one thousand 112 government and 833 private labs. Tests done per million of the population has also risen manifold in a span of 2 months and currently around 21 States and Union Territories have recorded higher tests per million than the national average. Nearly 20 states have registered positivity rate even lower than the National average.
