{"id":325579,"date":"2020-08-22T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T04:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325579"},"modified":"2020-08-22T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T05:03:49","slug":"covid-19-india-conducts-a-million-tests-in-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/covid-19-india-conducts-a-million-tests-in-single-day\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: India conducts a million tests in single day"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-324818 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1.jpg 681w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/07\/virus-1-585x420.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>The Union health ministry on Saturday said India has crossed the milestone of conducting 1 million COVID-19 tests in a day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministry further said that the surge in recovery rate was due to early identification through testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It also highlighted that the recovery rate has risen by 100% in the last 21 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIndia crosses the milestone of 1 million #COVID19 tests a day. More than 10 lakh people tested in the last 24 hours,\u201d Health Ministry tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEarly identification through TESTING, prompt &amp; effective TREATMENT through supervised home isolation and quality medical care, &amp; innovative graded policy measures have resulted in almost 100% increase in recovered cases in the last 21 days,\u201d it added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Union health ministry on Saturday said India has crossed the milestone of conducting 1 million COVID-19 tests in a day. The Ministry further said that the surge in recovery rate was due to early identification through testing. It also highlighted that the recovery rate has risen by 100% in the last 21 days. \u201cIndia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12750,12764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325579"}],"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=325579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325580,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325579\/revisions\/325580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}