Aim to ramp up daily testing capacity for Covid-19 to 45 lakh by June-end: Centre

The government is aiming to ramp up India's daily testing capacity for Covid-19 to 45 lakh by end of June from the current capacity of 16-20 lakh per day, the Centre said on Thursday.

The government aims to ramp up India's daily testing capacity for Covid-19 to 45 lakh by end of June from the current capacity of 16-20 lakh per day, the Centre said on Thursday as a record 20.55 lakh tests were conducted in a span of 24 hours. On augmenting testing for Covid-19 while ICMR has so far approved a home-based rapid antigen testing (RAT) kit manufactured by Mylab Discovery Solutions Ltd, Pune, ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava said kits by three more companies are in pipeline and likely to get the approval within a week. Bhargava said kits for home testing will be available in market in 3-4 days, adding that for ramping up capacity the ICMR has validated more than 105 Rapid Antigen Tests companies and approved 41 of them.