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Covid surge: Delhi labs ramp up infra, hire staff as more people get tested

On Thursday, Delhi reported 15,097 fresh Covid cases, the highest single-day rise since May 8 last year

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Hiring more staff and ramping up infrastructure are some of the steps being taken by laboratories in Delhi as more people get themselves tested amid a surge in Covid cases, triggered by the Omicron variant.

Besides these, some have opened walk-in centres and plan to expand the capacity of their central testing labs, where samples are processed, and collection capacity.

Opting for these measures has become imperative as unlike the last wave of the Covid pandemic, this time the surge has been sudden, just in a couple of days, laboratories said.

"We have made a testing capacity of 7,000 samples a day in

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