New Delhi, October 22
India today reported two milestones in its Covid management journey with the cumulative tests crossing 10 crore and daily positivity rate staying below 5% for the third straight day.
"The last five crore tests have been done in a record time of 45 days. Now, we have 2,000 Covid labs. The average testing has been over 10 lakh a day for the past 17 days," the ICMR said.
Steady decline for third day
The daily positivity rate has been below 5% for three days. Of the 702 deaths in 24 hours, over 25% have occurred in Maharashtra. With 23 deaths, Punjab is among 10 states with top death burden. Other such states are Karnataka, Delhi, C'garh, WB, UP, TN, Andhra and Kerala.
Till now, 74,000 tests per million people have been conducted, it said, allaying speculations that India's Covid load was dropping due to reduced testing.
The daily positivity rate has been less than 5% for three days, indicating that the spread of infection is being contained, Health Ministry said. The daily positivity rate reported today was 3.8%.
Overall 68,74,518 have recovered, taking the recovery rate to 89.20%. The toll has climbed to 1,16,616 with 702 deaths in a day. — TNS
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