Nearly 1 crore tested: Centre

New Delhi: "The total number of people being tested for COVID-19 in the country will soon touch 1 crore. This has been possible due to removal of all bottlenecks by the Centre," the government said.

"Various steps taken by Central Government have paved the way for enhanced testing for COVID-19. Till now, 90,56,173 tests conducted through a diagnostic testing network. There are now 1065 testing labs in the country-768 in public sector & 297 private labs.

434 deaths and 19,148 new COVID-19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours. Positive cases in India stand at 6,04,641 including 2,26,947 active cases, 3,59,860 cured/discharged/migrated and 17834 deaths