Uttar Pradesh has 1 lakh beds in hospitals and we are conducting more than 15000 tests every day," said a senior cabinet minister of Uttar Pradesh. "We want to increase this to 20,000 tests daily.
We had just one testing centre in the beginning of March but now it has increased to 33. We are making the effort to increase it further to help the test more," the minister added.Chief ministers of four of the worst-hit cases due to the pandemic –- Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi and Gujarat -– will also attend today's meeting.
These four states together account for over 7,500 deaths. They have a total of 2.24 lakh cases out of which 1.14 lakhs have recovered.