Nearly 11 lakh 50 thousand COVID samples were tested in the country in the last 24 hours. With a cumulative testing figure of around 7 crore 90 lakhs, 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 873 labs for testing Covid samples which includes one thousand 101 government and 772 private labs.
Average daily testing has witnessed an increase 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 stands at nearly 50 thousand per million of the population. With the expansion of testing infrastructure, the daily testing by States and Union Territories has also increased. 23 States and UTs have recorded higher tests per million than the national average.
Despite increase in testing, the positivity rate remains low and hovers around 8.4 per cent. Bihar, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh , Manipur, Jharkhand and Telangana are among the states recording a positivity rate even lower than 5 per cent.
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