With 13 more added in past 1 day, country now has 1100 Covid testing labs

New Delhi: With increasing number of the Covid testing labs across the nation , the facilities have now reached 1100 pan India.
According to the data released by the Indian Coucil of Medical Research, 13 more such labs have been added in the past 24 hours.
This way the Covid testing capacity of the country is being enhanced and the government agency is also working to ensure that flawless testing preatices are being ensured by the labs all over.
Out of these total labs , 786 such labs are under the government , while remaining 314 are private laboratories.
These labs tested 248934 smaples for Covid 19 on Saturday.
So far, the total number of tests conducted in the country till July 4 as per the ICMR stand at 9789066.
Earlier , till January 23 only a single lab situated at Pune had the facility of testing Covid samples , and now in five and a half month’s duration 1100 labs across the country have the capability to test samples for the virus.