In a significant achievement, the number of COVID-19 tests has crossed the 10 million (1 crore) milestone.

This signifies the importance accorded to widespread testing and the focussed “Test, Trace, Treat” strategy with several follow-up measures taken in tandem by the Central government and the States/UTs.

During the last 24 hours, 3,46,459 samples have been tested. The cumulative number of samples tested, as of now is 1,01,35,525.

This achievement has also been possible by the continuously expanding network of testing labs throughout the country. As on date, more than 1105 labs have enables people to undergo COVID-19 tests. There are 788 labs in the government sector and 317 private labs. The various kinds of tests for COVID-19 and the labs providing these are as follows:

• Real-Time RT PCR based testing labs: 592 (Govt: 368 + Private: 224)

• TrueNat based testing labs: 421 (Govt: 387 + Private: 34)

• CBNAAT based testing labs: 92 (Govt: 33 + Private: 59)

Consistent and focussed efforts for containment and management of COVID-19 by the Government of India along with the States/UTs have led to the number of recovered cases among COVID-19 patients rise to 4,24,432 as of today. During the last 24 hours, a total of 15,350 COVID-19 patients have been cured.

Meanwhile, the Union Government and the State/UT governments have made a joint coordinated effort to effectively manage the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

As part of the coordinated efforts, the Union government has emphasized increasing testing, prompt contact tracing and timely clinical management of the cases. It has also helped the States to significantly ramp up testing capacities.

This has resulted in reduced positivity in the country. Currently, the national Positivity Rate stands at 6.73%.

There are 1,71,145 more recovered patients than COVID-19 active cases. This takes the national recovery rate amongst COVID-19 to 60.86%.

There are 2,53,287 active cases and all are under active medical supervision.

In Delhi, the efforts being made by the UT were significantly bolstered by the Central Government to ensure increase in testing. Tests were ramped up through increased RT-PCR testing along with the new Rapid Antigen Point-of-Care (POC) tests which gives results in only about 30 min.

As a result of concerted and focused efforts by the Government of India to augment efforts, the average number of samples being tested per day which was only 5481 (1st-5th June 2020) has witnessed a huge increase to reach an average of 18,766 samples per day between 1st to 5th July 2020. In spite of significantly increased testing in Delhi, the positivity rate has seen a substantial decrease from about 30% to 10% in the last three weeks.