NEW DELHI, June 17 (NNN-UNI) – The federal government said, testing capacity for detecting COVID-19 in infected people in the country was continuously being ramped-up.
The government said, so far 5.9 million tests have been conducted and during the past 24 hours, 154,935 samples were tested.
“The country now has the capacity to test 300,000 samples per day. The total number of samples tested thus far is 5,921,069, with 154,935 samples tested in the last 24 hours,” the health ministry said.
As of now, a network of 907 labs has been created. Of these, 659 labs are in the government sector and 248 in the private sector.
Meanwhile, India’s recovery rate has risen to 52.47 percent, which is indicative of the fact that more than half of positive cases have recovered.
“A total of 180,012 patients, so far, have been cured of COVID-19 and during the last 24 hours, 10,215 COVID-19 patients were cured,” the government said. “Currently, 153,178 active cases are under medical supervision.”
The data released by the government in the morning said, total COVID-19 cases in the country have reached 343,091, including 9,900 deaths.– NNN-UNI
