India has set a new landmark of conducting 3 crore tests, a testament to the focussed, consistent and coordinated efforts of the Centre and the state and UT governments, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Monday. With 7,31,697 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, India is on its resolved drive to increase its testing capacity to 10 lakh tests daily. Building on this achievement, the Tests Per Million (TPM) have seen a sharp increase to 21,769, the ministry said. While the cumulative testing rose from 1.2 crore on July 14 2020 to 3 crore on August 16, 2020, the positivity rate has seen a rise from 7.5% to 8.81% in the same period. Thus, enhanced and timely TESTING is not only keeping the Positivity Rate low but also the Fatality Rate low," the ministry said.

Source: dna August 17, 2020 15:56 UTC