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Covid-19 Factoid: Delhi tops in testing, fares better than national average

The national capital has so far conducted 768,617 tests for Covid-19 which is 38,792 tests per million population

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Healthcare workers collect swab samples from people residing at a slum area for COVID-19 testing in Mumbai on Saturday.

Jyotindra Dubey New Delhi
The global confirmed case count is nearing the 13-million mark, and the death toll stands at 568,367, while over 7.5 million people have managed to recover from the virus till date. 

In India, the cases tally has surged to almost 850,000, the third-highest in the world. The number of active cases in the country is now almost 300,000 and 22,674 people have lost their lives in the country till now due to coronavirus. 

Here are some data points on the spread of the pandemic:

#1 Delhi tops the chart in terms of tests per million population ratio

Delhi has so