New Delhi|HL
India record to test more than 8 lakh samples in a single day. The daily testing counts 8.99 lakh swab samples on Monday.
The country is close to achieving the daily testing target of around a million swab samples.
India has conducted 309,38,400 Covid-19 tests to date since the first swab sample was diagnosed on January 23. There has been a threefold rise in conducting Covid-19 tests, as compared to a month ago, when 10 million samples were tested.
“A new peak was achieved following 8.99 lakh Covid-19 tests in the last 24 hours. Even with such a high level of testing, the positivity has remained low at 8.81%, as compared to the weekly national average of 8.84%,” said a release from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoH&FW).
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