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New Delhi : Keeping its promise of exponentially increasing the daily COVID-19 tests to 10 lakhs, India crossed the significant milestone in its fight against COVID on August 22, 2020.
In a testament to the determined, focussed, consistent, and coordinated efforts of the Centre and the State/UT governments, India conducted 1 million tests in the past 24 hours. With 10,23,836 tests done on August 21, 020, India has achieved its resolve to test 10 lakh COVID samples daily. With this achievement, the cumulative COVID sample tests are more than 3.4 crore (3,44,91,073).
The number of daily tests has been increasing in a steep climb. Average daily tests during the past three weeks also strongly depict the progress made in jump in COVID-19 sample tests across the country, according to a PIB release.
As has been reported from States/UTs that have pushed ahead with aggressive testing, there is a commensurate decline in the positivity rate. Although higher number of tests will initially lead to a rise in the positivity rate, it will eventually lower when combined with other measures such as prompt isolation, efficient tracking, and timely effective and clinical management.
Combined with enhanced testing, policy decisions of the Centre and the States/UTs have facilitated easy testing across the country. This has boosted the daily testing capacity. Today, the country has a strong network of 1,511 labs comprising 983 labs in the government sector and 528 private labs.