New Delhi (NVI): A record number of more than 4,20,000 COVID-19 tests were conducted in a single day by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) across the country, the Ministry of Health said.
In an official statement, the ministry said that, with 4,20,898 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the Tests Per Million (TPM) has further increased to 11,485 and cumulative testing to 1,58,49,068 and both continue to maintain the upward trend.
Notably, there has been increase in the number of labs from merely one in January to 1,301 today, inclusive of 902 government labs and 399 in the private sector.
Meanwhile, the Centre has advised all states and UTs to keep up the strategy of “Test, Track and Treat”. It has also asked the governments to test aggressive which may lead to higher number of daily positive cases initially but would eventually achieve a decline, the ministry said.
The statement further added that, the case fatality rate continues on its downward trend which means that the collective efforts of the Centre and State/UT governments have resulted to keep a check on the mortality due to COVID-19.
The fatality rate has significantly dipped to 2.35 per cent today. “India has one of the lowest fatality rates in the world,” it said.
In the last 24 hours, 32,223 COVID-19 patients have recovered taking the cumulative number of recovered cases to 8,49,431 today. With this the recovery rate has achieved another high of 63.54 per cent.
However, the gap between recovered patients and active COVID-19 cases has further increased to 3,93,360, the ministry added.
-RJV
