Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that efforts are underway to increase covid-19 testing capacity to 10 lakh per day in the coming weeks.Modi was speaking at the launch of three 'high throughput' covid-19 testing facilities via video conferencing.
These facilities are located at the national institutes of Indian Council of Medical Research, at Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida.While the country had only one COVID testing centre in January, Modi said, there are almost 1300 such labs now.
He said that at present, more than 5 lakh tests are being conducted in the country daily.Prime Minister said that these hi-tech state-of-the-art testing facilities will boost the testing capacity by almost 10,000 daily tests.