Even as India’s confirmed count of coronavirus infections nears 120,000, testing for the contagious disease—currently at 100,000 samples a day—remains uneven across the country.
The Union health ministry on Thursday said more than 2.61 million samples have been tested so far, with 103,532 tested in the past 24 hours at 555 labs (391 government-run and 164 private labs).
Almost 85% of the tests are being done in containment areas. Only four states—Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh—have done 250,000-350,000 tests each.
While Maharashtra has 12.62% of positive cases of the total tested samples, Andhra Pradesh has only 0.96%. Similarly, in the next band of 100,000-250,000 tests done, there are seven states—Uttar Pradesh,