India conducts approx 5 crore COVID tests, cases continue to surge

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Published on September 7, 2020 - Duration: 01:33s

India conducts approx 5 crore COVID tests, cases continue to surge

As COVID-19 cases in India continue to surge, country's daily testing capacity crossed 11.70 lakhs.

India has so far conducted approximately 5 crore COVID-19 tests.

Total of 7,20,362 tests were conducted in last 24 hrs.

As a result of the countrywide ramped up testing, 1,33,33,904 tests were conducted in last 2 weeks alone.

Tamil Nadu reported 5,776 new COVID-19 cases, 5,930 discharges and 89 deaths in the last 24 hours.

5,773 new COVID infections were reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking active cases toll to 97,001.

Haryana also reported 2, 224 COVID cases today.


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