{"id":325015,"date":"2020-07-31T03:55:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325015"},"modified":"2020-07-31T03:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T03:55:08","slug":"more-than-6-lakh-covid-19-tests-in-24-hours-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/more-than-6-lakh-covid-19-tests-in-24-hours-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 6 lakh COVID-19 tests in 24 hours: Health Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-321791 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/virus-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-2-1.jpg 355w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-2-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/virus-2-1-324x420.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/>India has achieved another landmark in its fight against COVID-19 by conducting more than six lakh tests in the last 24 hours, Union Health Ministry said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia achieves another landmark. More than 6 lakh tests done in 24 hours,\u201d the Health Ministry tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare continues to implement the strategy of comprehensive testing, tracking and treatment to effectively tackle the COVID19 pandemic,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe objective is to raise the testing capacity to 10 lakhs tests per day in the medium term,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On July 27, PM Modi launched three high throughput COVID-19 testing facilities via video conferencing These facilities are located at the National Institutes of Indian Council of Medical Research, at Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said, \u201cat present, more than 5 lakh tests are being conducted in the country daily, and efforts are underway to increase this capacity to 10 lakh in the coming weeks.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has achieved another landmark in its fight against COVID-19 by conducting more than six lakh tests in the last 24 hours, Union Health Ministry said on Friday. \u201cIndia achieves another landmark. More than 6 lakh tests done in 24 hours,\u201d the Health Ministry tweeted. \u201cThe Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare continues to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,12764,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325016,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325015\/revisions\/325016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}