15 thousand tests are performed daily: Ministry of Health

New delhi date. 12April 2020, Sunday

Corona virus transmission cases in the country have been declining at the current stage and the total cases have crossed 8,000. Central and state governments are taking precautionary measures to prevent transit.

"The private sector is also helping us," said the joint secretary of the health ministry. Railways, Army is helping everyone. Max Hospital has converted two of its hospitals into dedicated hospitals.

"We are expanding our testing labs in private and government colleges," said Love Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health. There have been 909 cases since yesterday. The positive thing is that our cases are also recovering. There are 15,000 tests done daily. If we talk about today, we have over 1 lakh beds as dedicated beds.

"We are preparing for the emerging situation in the country," he said. Looking at the numbers, we are constantly increasing our readiness. The country has so far tested 1,86,906 and the number of infections is 4.3%.

The number of coronary transit cases in the country has crossed 8 thousand. There have been 909 cases in the last 24 hours and 8356 cases so far, out of which 7367 cases are still active and 715 people have been discharged from the hospital. While 273 people have died from the virus infection.