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#IndiaFightsCorona, crosses crucial milestone by conducting more than 12 lakh #COVID19 tests in a single day for the first time
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#COVID19 testing infrastructure increases exponentially in the country as India conducts 12,06,806 tests in last 24 hours crossing 6.36 crore (6,36,61,060) mark

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#COVID19: India's testing capacity strengthens as the daily average crosses 12 lakh tests today from merely 10,000 tests per day (starting from April 8)

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#COVID19 tests increase exponentially resulting in lower positivity rate, decline in daily positivity rate demonstrates that the rate of spread of infection is being contained

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In order to enable higher levels of #COVID19 testing, Union Government provides ‘Testing on Demand' for the first time, giving wider flexibilities to States/UTs to simplify modalities

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Tests Per Million (TPM) increase to 46,131 due to expanded diagnostic lab network and facilitation for easy testing across the country

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India performs remarkably on fulfilling @WHO's advise of 140 tests/day/ million population, 35 States/UTs cross the advised number of tests

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#IndiaFightsCorona: Higher testing numbers have resulted in widening diagnostic lab network in the country (1773 labs):

▶️Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: 902
▶️TrueNat based testing labs: 746
▶️CBNAAT based testing labs: 125