New Delhi: India has tested 59,21,069 COVID-19 samples till now and the country has developed capacity to test 3 lakh samples per day, said Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) on Tuesday.
In a release, the Health Ministry said, “The testing capacity for detecting the coronavirus in infected persons in the country is continuously being ramped up. The country now has the capacity to test 3 lakh samples per day. The total number of samples tested thus far is 59,21,069 with 1,54,935 samples tested in the last 24 hours.” “A network of 907 labs has been created in the country as on date. This includes 659 labs in the government sector and 248 in the private sector,” it added.
The Ministry said that the Rapid Antigen test may be used in containment zones and hospital settings under strict medical supervision.
“The Standard Q COVID-19 Ag detection kit takes 15 minutes to show results and therefore will help in early detection of the disease. The antigen test can be conducted at the site of sample collection in the healthcare setting within one hour of sample collection. Domestic manufacturing capacity of antigen test kits in the country currently is around 10 million in a month. In order to facilitate states to easily procure the Rapid Antigen test kits, the Centre is ensuring that the domestic manufactures are onboarded to the Government E-Marketplace (GEM) portal,” it said.
Recovery rate @ 52.46% , close to 2 lakh people cured
The Union Government today said that the COVID-19 recovery rate has reached 52.46 per cent in the country and a total of 1,80,013 people affected with Coronavirus have been cured in the country.
During the last 24 hours, 10,215 people have recovered from this infection. Presently, the total number of active Corona cases in the country is 1,53, 178.
The Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that 10,667 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to 3,43,091 in the country. During the last 24 hours, 380 deaths were registered taking the nationwide toll to nine thousand 900. With this, the case fatality rate reached at 2.88 per cent in the country.
