India ramped up COVID-19 testing infrastructure to 1370 labs now: Health Ministry

India substantively ramped up its testing infrastructure from one lab in January 2020 to 1370 labs currently, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.

In view of COVID-19, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Thursday informed that the country has substantively. ramped up its testing infrastructure from one lab in January 2020 to 1370 labs as of now.

“#IndiaFightsCorona India has substantively ramped up its testing infrastructure from one lab in Jan 2020 to 1370 labs today. Expanded diagnostic lab network and facilitation for easy testing across the country has given a boost and India has done more than 2 crore tests presently,” said the MoHFW in a tweet on Thursday. The Health Ministry also said that the daily new recoveries are increasing steadily.

“The progressively increasing daily new recoveries are due to focused attention on surveillance, containment and effective clinical management. India created a network of Covid Dedicated Hospitals to manage the cases,” it said.It also said, “India has one of the lowest deaths/million compared to many countries.”

“Focused and coordinated implementation of “TEST, TRACK, TREAT” strategy focusing on early identification and effective clinical management has resulted in low and continuously sliding Case Fatality Rate (CFR),” the Ministry added in another tweet.

With a single-day spike of 56,282 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, India’s COVID-19 tally reached 19,64,537 on Thursday. The active cases stand at 5,95,501 and 13,28,336 patients have been cured or discharged.

The Health Ministry said active cases as a percentage of total cases have seen a significant drop from 34.17 percent on July 24 to 30.31 percent.

With an increase of 904 deaths, the toll due to the disease has gone up to 40,699.

The Ministry said that the recovery rate has reached a record high of 67.62 percent among COVID-19 patients and the Case Fatality Rate (CFR) stands at 2.07 percent.

“The total recoveries of COVID-19 patients have jumped to 13,28,336 with 46,121 COVID-19 patients being discharged in the last 24 hours. With such a consistent increase in recoveries, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has reached 7,32,835,” the Ministry said in a statement.

Source: ANI