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India has achieved the milestone of conducting 50 crore tests of covid-19 sample. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that India has achieved the milestone of the last ten crore tests in only 55 days. On 21st July, India had tested 45 Crores COVID-19 samples, which reached 50 crore mark yesterday. This has been enabled by rapidly increasing testing infrastructure and capacity across the country.
ICMR has been enhancing COVID-19 testing capability across the country by expanding and diversifying testing capacity by leveraging technology and facilitating innovation in affordable diagnostic kits. The testing strategy has been carefully calibrated to increase access and availability of testing. ICMR said that several advancements have been made towards reducing turnaround time of tests.
The ICMR has been further enhancing COVID-19 testing capability across the country by leveraging technology and facilitating innovation in affordable diagnostic kits. Easy-at-home self-diagnostic kits have been developed and approved to empower the citizen of India for COVID-19 testing. It said, the total number of diagnostic laboratories has reached 2 thousand 876 out of which dedicated government laboratories are 1322 and private laboratories number stands at one thousand 554.
