29 lakh 43 thousand 421 corona samples tested so far in country: ICMR

Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total 1,08,623 samples of corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, figure of total number of tests reached 29 lakh 43 thousand 421 in the country.

Meanwhile, ICMR is continuously scaling up its testing facilities for Covid-19 by giving approval to government and private laboratories. As of now, total 607 laboratories across india have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 427 government laboratories and 180 private laboratories’ chains.