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Out of over 5 lakh samples tested, 21797 corona positive: ICMR

  •   Thu, Apr 23 2020 04:11:59 PM

New Delhi, Apr 23 (IANS): A total of 5,00,542 samples have been tested by 9 a.m. on Thursday, said the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India's leading medical research lab.

The tests have been done from 4,85,172 individuals. Meanwhile, out of them, just 21,797 samples have been confirmed positive as Thursday morning, said the ICMR.

Meanwhile, rapid testing was paused after the ICMR asked states to do so following concerns that the Chinese kits may be faulty.

India has witnessed 681 COVID deaths so far, according to the health ministry. There have been 1,400 new cases of the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Maharashtra continues to remain the worst affected state. Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh too have been badly hit.

 
  

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  • PenMightierThanTheSword!, Mangalore

    Thu, Apr 23 2020

    Its scary that out of 1.3 billion people only a minuscule 5,00,542 samples have been tested. The actual number of positive cases must be over a million rather than the under-reported few thousand reported! Given that places like Dharavi which are population dense and have 10-15 people living in a room where sociial distancing is just and possible and the fact that illiterate people will treat COVID-19 symptoms as that of a sore throat/common cold/flu puts a greater onus on increasing testing.

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  • PenMightierThanTheSword!, Mangalore

    Thu, Apr 23 2020

    Its scary that out of 1.3 billion people only a minuscule 5,00,542 samples have been tested. The actual number of positive cases must be over a million rather than the under-reported few thousand reported! Given that places like Dharavi which are population dense and have 10-15 people living in a room where sociial distancing is just and possible and the fact that illiterate people will treat COVID-19 symptoms as that of a sore throat/common cold/flu puts a greater onus on increasing testing.

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