India records highest single day tests of COVID-19

India recorded the highest single-day COVID-19 tests of 8.3 lakh on Thursday. The total number of COVID tests being conducted across India touches to 2.68 crores.

New Delhi: India on Thursday registered the highest ever single-day COVID-19 tests of 8.3 lakh.

With this, the total number of COVID tests being conducted across India touches to 2.68 crores. The Union Health Ministry aims to achieve 10 lakh tests per day in the coming days.

Significantly, in the first week of July, the test's capacity per day was 2.3 lakh which subsequently registered an increasing trend with more than 6.3 lakh test conducted between August 5 to 11.

From merely one laboratory in January, India at present has 1,433 laboratories both Government (947) and private (486).

56,383 patients have been recovered in the last 24 hours taking the total recovery number to 17 lakh. India COVID fatality rate also witnessed a sharp increase with 1.96 per cent.

Health Ministry statistics said that the record high recoveries have ensured that the actual caseload of the country which is the active cases has reduced and currently is only 27.27 per cent of the total positive cases.

The recoveries exceed active cases (6,53,622) by more than 10 lakh.

Meanwhile, as per data compiled by centre for systems science and engineering (CSSE) at John Hopkins University, India is currently at third position as far as registering highest COVID-19 23,96,637.

US with 51, 97,749 cases tops the list followed by Brazil with 31,64,785 coming second.

India with 47,033 COVID-19 deaths comes fourth in the global platform after US (166,038), Brazil (104,201) and Mexico (54,666).