New Delhi, Aug 13 (UNI) India conducted a record 8,30,391 tests in the past 24 hours, crossing the milestone of eight lakh tests in a single day.
With this, the cumulative testing as on date jumped to 2,68,45,688 and Tests Per Million also spiked to 19,453, an official statement here said.
The week-wise average daily tests conducted has seen a jump from around 2.3 lakh in the first week of July, 2020 to more than 6.3 lakh in the current week.
In pursuance of the "Test, Track and Treat" strategy, the country is gearing up to reach the testing capacity of 10 lakh tests a day.
This has been propelled by the sustained expansion of testing labs across the country. From merely one lab in January, 2020, the country is today having 1,433 labs, with 947 in the government sector and 486 private labs.
The different types of labs include 733 Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs (434 Government and 299 private), 583 TrueNat based testing labs (480 Government and 103 private) and 117 CBNAAT based testing labs (33 Government and 84 private).
The strong resolve and determination of the Union and State/UT Governments to follow aggressive testing as the first important step in the early detection and isolation of COVID-19 positive cases has resulted in India rapidly increasing the number of tests done per day.
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