Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total 92,528 samples of Corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, figure of total number of tests reached to 31 lakh 26 thousand 119 in the country.

 ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for COVID-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 612 laboratories across the country have been given approval to conduct the test for COVID-19 including 430 government laboratories and 182 private laboratories' chains.

Meanwhile,Health and Family Welfare Ministry said that a total 60 thousand 490 people affected with Coronavirus are cured and the recovery rate reached to 41.61 percent in the country.

During the last twenty four hours, two thousand 769 people have recovered and six thousand 535 fresh cases of COVID-19 have been reported taking the total number of cases to one lakh 45 thousand 380. Health Ministry said, 146 deaths have been registered in last 24 hours taking the nationwide toll to four thousand 167. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan also said that India utilised the lockdown period to ramp up its health-care infrastructure. He said the lockdown also helped to keep the COVID-19 mortality rate relatively low.

Dr Harsh Vardhan added, central and state governments have put in place 3,027 dedicated COVID-19 hospitals and COVID health centres besides 7,013 COVID care centres.  He said, all dedicated health facilities together have 2.81 lakh isolation beds, 31,250 intensive care unit (ICU) beds, and 11,387 beds with oxygen support for patients.Referring to some reports in  media expressing concern about the quality of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) coveralls he clarified, the products under reference have no relevance to the procurement being made by the Central Government. HLL Lifecare Limited (HLL), the procuring agency of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, is procuring PPE coveralls from manufacturers/suppliers only after getting their coveralls tested and approved by one of the eight labs nominated by the Ministry of Textiles (MoT) for testing the same. It is only after their products qualify in the test prescribed by the technical committee (JMG) of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, that they are procured.

Further, HLL is also undertaking random sampling of the supplies being made, for which a testing protocol has been devised. In case of any failure, the company is being disqualified for any supplies. All the States/UTs have been asked to ensure procurement which is being carried out at their level after following the prescribed testing for PPEs from MoT nominated labs. In addition, manufacturers who have got their products qualified from these labs are also being on-boarded on Government e-Marketplace (GeM). The manufacturers who have got PPEs qualified have been advised by the MoT to on-board on to the GeM so that the procurement by States can be carried out accordingly. For the private sector also, the dynamic information of manufacturers whose products have qualified the tests is available on MoT website.

India has significantly ramped up its domestic production capacity of PPEs and N95 masks, and the requirements of the States/UTs are being sufficiently met. Today, the country is producing more than 3 lakh PPEs and N95 masks per day. States/UTs as well as Central Institutions have been provided with around 111.08 lakh N-95 masks and around 74.48 lakh Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).