India to increase testing capacity to 100,000 per day soon: Harsh Vardhan

As total coronavirus deaths crossed the 1,000 mark and total confirmed cases reached 31,787, the Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said that the government is working to increase the testing capacity to 100,000 tests per day within the next few days. 

As on Wednesday, India had conducted a total of 770,764 tests. More than 1,800 new confirmed cases got added to the total tally, since Tuesday evening. 

Currently, 288 government laboratories are working along with 97 private labs chains with around 16,000 sample collection centres and around 60,000 tests per day. 

“The ministry of science & technology, under my charge,