RT-PCR tests

The state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday achieved yet another benchmark of testing over 9 crore samples for novel Corona virus infection. Testing an average of 2 to 1.5 lakh samples daily, Uttar Pradesh became the first state in the country to cross the milestone.

Early detection and isolation of potentially infectious individual is the key to successfully fighting a viral pandemic. The Yogi Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh effectively implemented and intensified the stringent ‘Trace-Test-Treat’ mechanism throughout the state.

Uttar Pradesh’s daily Covid-19 testing has been over ten times more than the prescribed testing protocol for the state by the global health body World Health Organization. The testing protocol laid by the WHO for Uttar Pradesh is 32,000 tests per day, whereas the Covid testing in the state has hovered between 300,000 and 250,000.

In terms of Contact Tracing too, Uttar Pradesh has left all the other states behind by testing maximum samples on detection of a single positive case. As a result of which the most populous state has been able to effectively break the Covid-chain.

Uttar Pradesh has come a long way from getting the first Covid test conducted from the lab at National Institute of Virology, Pune in 2020 to breaching the 90 million tests frontier that testifies the enlarged testing capacity in the state. As many as 9,00,17,196 samples have so far been tested in Uttar Pradesh.

Despite being the most populous state in the country, UP has outperformed all other states including Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan by conducting nearly 1.50 lakh RT-PCR tests on an average daily.

– All 75 Districts to be equipped with Testing Facilities

Even as Uttar Pradesh has conducted the highest number of Covid-19 testing in the country, the government is pushing for more testing and soon will equip all the 75 districts with Bio-Safety level-2 laboratories that would further boost the state’s testing capacity, which is already nearly 3 lakh tests a day.

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