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- Published: August 30, 2020 17:54
New Delhi: In a major milestone in Covid-19 testing, India on Saturday conducted 10.50 lakh testing of samples in past 24 hours. The encouraging figures are in line with Health Ministry’s targeted Covid-19 testing in a day. The weekly average daily tests conducted also witnessed steep increase from around 2.3 lakh in the first week of July to around 9 lakh in the current week.
The remarkable feat has been achieved by rigorously following the “Test, Track and Treat” strategy. Till now, with an overall testing figure of nearly 4.14 crore, the nation has also been able to maintain a remarkably low positivity rate of around 8.5%.
Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh have recorded a positivity rate even lower than 5 per cent. In another remarkable feat, all States and Union Territories have surpassed the 140 tests per day per million population as advised by the WHO.
The national average of tests conducted per million of the population on a single day scaled a new peak of being at nearly 545. Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Odisha have conducted over 900 tests per million of their population. Around seven other states as well have registered higher testing figures per million of their population than the national average.
Meanwhile, the recovery rate of patients from COVID-19 in the country continues it’s upward trend and has improved to 76.61 per cent today.
The total number of patients recovered so far is more than 3.5 times the number of active cases. With sustained, pre-emptive and timely interventions, nearly 65,000 patients recovered in last 24 hours. Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Haryana , Gujarat, Assam, West Bengal, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu have recovery rates more than 80%.
The Health Ministry has informed that out of the total active Corona cases in the country only 0.29 per cent are on ventilators whereas nearly 2 per cent of the total patients are in the ICU.
The Health Ministry said that over 78,000 new cases of Covid- 19 have been registered in the country in last 24 hours taking cumulative figure to 35.42 lakh.
Presently, the total number of active corona cases in the country is 7.65 lakh. In a single day, 948 deaths have also been reported taking the toll to 63,498.
Health Ministry also said, as India rides the wave of an upsurge in testing, many States and Union Territories have exceeded 140 tests per day per million population as advised by World Health Organization (WHO).