COVID-19: India touches another milestone, conducts nearly 3.9 crore tests

In a major boost in  fight against COVID, cumulative number of COVID-19 tests conducted in country has reached nearly 3.9 crores. number of COVID-19 recoveries has surpassed 25 lakh in country while case fatality rate has furr declined to 1.83 per cent, Union health ministry said on Thursday.

" strategic approach of country as regards COVID-19 response and manment -- "test, track, treat" -- emphasises key principle of high level of testing on a sustained basis, leing to an early diagsis. A timely diagsis furnishes opportunities to isolate or hospitalise positive cases equately in vance for appropriate treatment. This in turn facilitates lower mortality rates and speedy recovery," ministry said.

Besides, 9,24,998 lakh COVID-19 tests were conducted across country in a span of 24 hours, taking total number of tests performed to 3,85,76,510.

"With more patients recovering and being discharged from hospitals and home isolation, India's total COVID-19 recoveries surpassed 2.5 million today," ministry highlighted.

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Union Health Ministry on Thursday mandated COVID screening for all diagsed Tuberculosis (TB) patients and TB screening for all COVID-19 positive patients. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) issued a guidance te on bi-directional TB-COVID screening and screening of TB among influenza like illness (ILI) and severe acute respiratory infections (SARI) cases.

This decision comes as both TB and COVID-19 primarily attack lungs, and prevalence of TB among COVID-19 patients has been found to be 0.37 - 4.47 percent in different studies. A te furr re that  re has been an overall decline in TB tification by 26 percent during January to June 2020 as compared to previous year, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

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