India ramps up COVID-19 tests as total tally surpasses 7 million
Global Times
Source: Published: 2020/10/12 14:12:54
India on Sunday became the second country globally, after the United States, to have over 7 million COVID-19 cases.
With 74,383 new COVID-19 cases identified between Saturday and Sunday morning, the total tally reached 7,053,806, confirmed the federal health ministry.
For over two months India's focus has been on ramping up the COVID-19 testing facilities. According to the latest data from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), as many as 86,877,242 tests were conducted till Saturday, out of which 1,078,544 tests were conducted on Saturday alone.
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