Coronavirus: India preps for long haul, orders 1 million Covid-19 test kits from Germany

In its fight against coronavirus, India needs to amp up its diagnostic and testing mechanism.

In a bid to bolster the coronavirus testing and diagnosis framework in the country, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is scaling up testing capacity further and has placed an order for one million testing reagents from Germany.

Nine more laboratories for testing and sample collection are being added to the network.

As of Monday, authorities said they had tested barely 9,000 people despite having at least 300,000 kits, putting India in the bottom rung of countries.

According to latest reports, South Korea has been able to conduct a large number of diagnostic tests at a fast pace - an average of over 20,000 tests in a day. This is helping authorities in detecting coronavirus patients at an early stage and treat them to recovery. The country has over 500 testing labs

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