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India registered a record high testing of more than eight lakh COVID-19 samples consecutively for the second day. The Health Ministry said, India recorded its highest COVID testing figure of eight lakh 48 thousand 728 samples during the last 24 hours. It said, the remarkable feat has been achieved by rigorously following the ‘Test, Track and Treat’ strategy and the country is geared up to reach the testing capacity of 10 lakh tests per day.
The Health Ministry said that the strong resolve and determination of the Union Government along with the States and Union Territories to follow aggressive testing as the first important step in the early detection and isolation of COVID-19 cases has resulted in rapidly increasing the number of tests done per day. The week-wise average daily tests conducted has witnessed a sharp increase from around 2.3 lakh in the first week of July 2020 to around seven lakh in the current week.
The cumulative testing done so far in the country now stands at two crore 76 lakhs 94 thousand 416 tests. The Tests done per million of the population in the country has also seen a sharp increase to reach nearly 20 thousand.
Government said that the strong determinant of this milestone has been a sustained expansion of testing labs across the country. From merely one lab in January this year, the country today has one thousand 451 labs. Out of these, 958 are government labs while the remaining 493 are private labs.