PTI, New Delhi: Goa is conducting the highest tests per day per million at 1,584, even as a record number of more than 10.5 lakh tests were conducted in a day in India for detection of COVID-19, the number of such tests performed in the country has crossed 4.14 crore, the Union health ministry said on Sunday.
The exponential jump in testing capacity and the number of tests has resulted in an upsurge in Tests Per Million to 30,044 as on date, it highlighted.
According to data shared by the ministry, India’s daily tests per million stands at 545. Goa is followed by Andhra Pradesh at 1,391, Delhi at 950, Tamil Nadu 847, Assam 748, Karnataka, 740, Bihar 650 and Telangana 637 in conducting highest tests per day.
With a record 10,55,027 tests conducted on Saturday, the country has further strengthened the national diagnostic capacity of testing more than 10 lakh samples for COVID-19 daily.
The total number of tests conducted in the country for detection of coronavirus currently stands at 4,14,61,636, the ministry said.
The Centre, keeping in view the evolving global context of COVID-19, conceptualised and implemented the continuum of care strategy of “test, track and treat” in close coordination with the states and Union territories, it said.
Pivoted on the strong pillar of aggressive testing, the positive cases are identified early, which enables and ensures that their contacts are efficiently tracked in a timely manner, the ministry stated.
This is followed up with prompt isolation at home or a facility setting for the mild and moderate cases, and hospitalisation for the severe and critical patients, it said.
The World Health Organization (WHO), in its guidance note on ‘Public Health Criteria to Adjust Public Health and Social Measures in the Context of COVID-19’, has advised comprehensive surveillance for suspected coronavirus cases.
