Saturday, 11 July 2020

10,000 Covid Tests in Single Day in Telangana

10,000 Covid Tests in Single Day in Telangana

For the first time since the outbreak of COVID-19, Telangana conducted over 10,000 tests in a single day, while the number of new cases showed a declining trend for a second consecutive day on Friday.

Authorities tested 10,354 samples and of them 1,278 tested positive. With this the state has doubled the number of daily tests

was immediately not clear if the authorities have started using Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) kits. The officials had already deployed RAT kits at 40 urban primary health care centres in parts of Greater Hyderabad and in neighbouring Rangareddy and Medchal districts.

The move came amid continuing criticism of the state government by the opposition parties and public health activists for not doing enough testing.T Today


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