Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has said that the high throughput testing facilities in Noida, Mumbai and Kolkata will be able to test more than test more than ten thousand COVID samples everyday.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, Dr. Vardhan said that under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India undertook a preemptive approach towards containment of COVID-19.
He informed that starting from just one testing facility in Pune, Maharashtra only six months ago, the country has now more than 1,300 such testing facilities.
The Health Minister said, 97 per cent of the country today has easy access to the testing facility. He said, government has planned to establish COVID testing facility in every district in the country.
Dr. Vardhan informed that ICMR started validation centres at 24 places in the country for granting easy and speedy approvals to novel testing and treating techniques.
Dwelling upon the significance of testing in order to contain the pandemic, the Minister said, the situation in the National Capital has been brought under control after increasing the testing numbers in Delhi, three times its earlier figure.
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