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The Union health ministry on Saturday said India has crossed the milestone of conducting 1 million tests to detect Covid-19 per day, which experts say is important to know the exact disease burden. The health ministry also highlighted that the recovery rate has risen by 100% in the past three weeks.
The union health ministry further added that the surge in recovery rate was due to early identification through testing.
India crosses the milestone of 1 million #COVID19 tests a day.
More than 10 lakh people tested in the last 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/McUcc1JbZJ
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) August 22, 2020
India recorded the highest-number of recoveries in a single day on Friday with 62,282 patients recovering from coronavirus. The total number of recoveries crossed the 21.5-lakh mark on Friday.
The union health ministry highlighted in the tweet that prompt and effective measures were taken to cure the patients. Treatment under home isolation and graded policy measures which were innovative has led to this milestone, the ministry said in its tweet.
Early identification through TESTING, prompt & effective TREATMENT through supervised home isolation and quality medical care, & innovative graded policy measures have resulted in almost 100% increase in recovered cases in the last 21 days.
— Ministry of Health (@MoHFW_INDIA) August 22, 2020
The government was close to crossing the milestone as more than 900,000 tests were being conducted over the last two days. More than 1,500 labs have been conducting tests across the nation and ICMR is looking forward to further ramp up testing to curb the contagion.
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