Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh became the first country in the country to do more than 7 Covid Crore tests on Thursday.
“Early detection and insulation of potentially infectious individuals is the key to successfully combating viral pandemics.
The protocol testing by the World Health Organization for Uttar Pradesh is 32,000 tests per day, while Covid testing in the country has an average of 2.5 lakh tests a day for several weeks Finally, “said a government spokesman.
Meanwhile reported 29 new covid positive cases and 35 recovery on Thursday, took the total number of active cases down to 407.
The case was reported from only 16 districts, with Lucknow reported the number of new cases in five.
Banda and Bulandshahr also reported one of their respective deaths.
“The reason is able to maintain infection under control is due to aggressive testing.
On Thursday, the country carried out more than 2.36 lakh tests.
Except for a few days including an average of 2.3-2.5 lakh test a day.
On The scale of sample testing per case positive, up was to test 39.9 per positive case, “said a government spokesman, added that 6.4 tests per positive case was carried out in Maharashtra, 11.5 in Karna, 8 in Kerala, 14 in Delhi , 12.8 in Tamil Nadu tests and 11.4 per positive case at Andhra Pradesh.
He added that 70% of the test was carried out because the second wave surge in Covid-19 was conducted in rural areas.
“More than 73,000 supervisory committees formed by the Yogi Adityanath government moved across 97,941 villages in all 75 districts for this activity, which began on May 5.
We are targeting the coverage of rural households 100%,” he said.
A spokesman added that testing was very important to limit the transmission of Covid-19 because it helped the detection of cases, insulation and search their contacts.
The government gets more than one lakh test through 8,000 fast response teams in country rural areas every day, he said.