On account of ramping up its testing amenities on a sustained foundation, with the goal of touching 10 lakh exams/day, India has touched a brand new excessive of the very best variety of exams in a single day, up to now. A report excessive of 8,48,728 exams have been performed within the final 24 hours. This has taken the cumulative exams to 2,76,94,416.
WHO in its Steerage Word on “Public Well being Standards to Modify Public Well being and Social Measures within the Context of COVID-19” has suggested complete surveillance for suspected instances. WHO has suggested {that a} nation wants 140 exams per day per million inhabitants.
Whereas the nationwide common is 603 exams/day/million inhabitants, with focussed efforts of the Centre and efficient implementation by the States/UTs, 34 of them have exceeded this determine. States/UTs are being suggested to scale up the testing on a commensurate degree with the prevailing positivity.
A key part for the profitable implementation of the “Take a look at, Observe and Deal with” technique has been the constantly increasing community of diagnostic labs throughout the nation. The community as on in the present day consists of1451 labs with 958 within the authorities sector and 493 personal labs.
The several types of labs embrace:
• Actual-Time RT PCR primarily based testing labs: 749 (Govt: 447 + Personal 302)
• TrueNat primarily based testing labs: 586 (Govt: 478 + Personal: 108)
• CBNAAT primarily based testing labs: 116 (Govt: 33 + Personal: 83)