{"id":325521,"date":"2020-08-18T03:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325521"},"modified":"2020-08-18T03:43:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T03:43:53","slug":"8-97-lakh-covid-19-tests-conducted-in-last-24-hours-health-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/8-97-lakh-covid-19-tests-conducted-in-last-24-hours-health-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"8.97 lakh COVID-19 tests conducted in last 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=\"484\" height=\"627\" 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: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/>A record high of 8.97 lakh COVID-19 tests were done in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA new peak of 8.97 lakh #COVID19 tests were done in the last 24 hours. Even with such a high level of testing, the positivity has remained low i.e. 8.81% compared to the weekly national average i.e. 8.84%,\u201d Health Ministry tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAggressive TESTING leads to early identification and isolation of #COVID19 positive cases. This coupled with efficient clinical treatment brings the Fatality Rate down,\u201d it said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry further said, \u201cFocused implementation of Centre-led strategies has ensured prompt identification, timely isolation &amp; effective clinical treatment, leading to reduced Case Fatality Rate. 30 States\/UTs performed better than the national average.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The total number of coronavirus tests in India\u00a0has crossed the 3-crore mark, the ministry said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A total of 3,00,41,400 samples were tested up to August 16, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record high of 8.97 lakh COVID-19 tests were done in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) said on Tuesday. \u201cA new peak of 8.97 lakh #COVID19 tests were done in the last 24 hours. Even with such a high level of testing, the positivity has remained low i.e. [&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":[12470,12764,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325521"}],"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=325521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325522,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325521\/revisions\/325522"}],"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=325521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}