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 locally specific data-driven responses or what we called as--"knowing the epidemic," (Prof) Dr Bhargava said."So the states have to know the epidemic at the states level and at the district level and mount responses which are data driven.