India’s daily Covid-19 test touches a record 1.2 million

India on Saturday carried out 1.2 million checks throughout the nation to detect the coronavirus illness (Covid-19); it’s the highest variety of samples examined in a single day up to now.

With that, the whole variety of samples examined for Covid-19 within the nation previously eight months has reached about 60.four million.

The first test for Covid-19 within the nation was carried out on January 23 on the Indian Council of Medical Research’s (ICMR) apex virology laboratory at National Institute of Virology in Pune.

There has been a progressive rise in Covid-19 testing within the nation. From about 10,000 until April 8, the variety of checks reached 1 million by May 3; 5 million by June 10; 10 million by July 7; and is now about 60.four million, in line with Union well being ministry information.

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“Higher testing leads to early identification of positive cases, timely and effective treatment and low mortality,” stated the well being ministry.

On common, India has been administering a million checks daily for nearly 4 weeks now, and that largely contains two checks—reverse transcript polymerase chain response (RT-PCR) checks and speedy antigen checks (RAT).

The speedy antigen test includes between 30% and 40% of the whole Covid-19 diagnostics checks at present, in line with the federal government information.

“While the number of daily tests has increased as an integral part of chase the virus strategy, States have been advised that all symptomatic negatives of rapid antigen tests are mandatorily subjected to RT-PCR,” the well being ministry additional stated.

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ICMR, which has been spearheading the Covid-19 testing initiative within the nation, has been continually making efforts to scale up the testing infrastructure to have the ability to successfully execute authorities’s coverage to test, observe and deal with as a part of ‘chase the virus’ coverage to chop the illness transmission cycle.

ICMR, in an announcement, stated, “Recently, an increasing number of cases has been reported from states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Naidu. ICMR is enhancing testing capacity in these states. ICMR has been regularly assessing the situation and responding by revising testing strategy. In its latest advisory on Covid-19 testing strategy, ‘testing on demand’ for individuals has been allowed. The State/UT governments have been allowed to simplify the modalities to facilitate testing on demand.”