1,19,976 samples of corona virus tested in last 24 hours: ICMR

The Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR said that a total one lakh 19 thousand 976 samples of corona virus were tested in the last 24 hours. With this, figure of total number of tests reached to 33 lakh 62 thousand 136 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 632 laboratories across India have been given approval to conduct the test for Covid-19 including 439 government laboratories and 193 private laboratories' chains .