New Delhi [India], Aug 4 (ANI): The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has directed all state governments to “analyse the COVID-19 data to know the epidemic,” said ICMR chief (Prof) Dr Balram Bhargava on Tuesday.
The top ICMR scientist said that since it has been more than 6 months when India reported the first COVID-19 case on January 30, country has been able to ramp up its testing speed.
So far the country has done more than 2 crores of testings and the government has been able to establish a large number of laboratories. And on August 3, ICMR performed about 6.6 lakh testing in a single day.
“States are also cooperating immensely with us. We are requesting them to reach 10 lakh testing per day and we are providing infrastructure to them. But it is important for states to analyze the data and mount l
