Facilitated 1,000 Covid-19 testing labs in India till now, says ICMR

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Tuesday that it has now facilitated setting up 1,000 laboratories across the country for testing Covid-19 samples.

ICMR said that this is a major milestone towards enhanced testing in India.

According to ICMR, there are 730 government labs and 270 private labs for the testing.

There was only one lab for testing on January 23, 160 labs on March 23 and 1,000 labs on June 23, ICMR said.

It has advised all states, public and private institutions and hospitals to take required steps to scale-up testing for Covid-19.

ICMR asked them to deploy a combination of various