{"id":89032,"date":"2020-08-24T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89032"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:06:01","slug":"covid-19-india-achieves-milestone-of-testing-one-million-people-in-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=89032","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: India Achieves Milestone Of Testing One Million People In A Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; India achieved a significant milestone in its fight against COVID-19 pandemic by conducting over one million tests in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from the Indian High Commission in Malaysia sent to Bernama on Monday, with coordinated and consistent efforts by the central, state and the Union Territory (UT) governments, a total of 1,023,836 tests had been conducted last Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India has resolved to test 10 lakh samples daily (1 lakh = 100,000). With this achievement, the cumulative tests are more than 3.4 crore (1 crore = 10 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe number of daily tests has been increasing on a steep climb. Average daily tests during the past three weeks also strongly depict the progress made in the enhancement of COVID-19 tests across the country,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It added that although a higher number of tests will initially lead to a rise in the positivity rate, it will eventually lower when combined with other measures such as prompt isolation, efficient tracking, and timely, effective and clinical management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCombined with enhanced testing, policy decisions of the Centre and the States\/UTs have facilitated easy testing across the country,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, India has a strong network of 1511 enhanced diagnostic labs comprising 983 labs in the government sector and 528 private labs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; India achieved a significant milestone in its fight against COVID-19 pandemic by conducting over one million tests in a day. According to a statement from the Indian High Commission in Malaysia sent to Bernama on Monday, with coordinated and consistent efforts by the central, state and the Union Territory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":89033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,291],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}