‘Andhra Pradesh stands 5th in country in conducting COVID-19 tests’
The Hindu
State refutes amicus curiae allegation that it is lackadaisical
The State government on Thursday informed the Andhra Pradesh High Court that it stood 5th in the country in the COVID-19 tests conducted per million population, with the number surpassing two crore. In a memo submitted to the court, in response to a PIL filed by the AP Civil Liberties Association, the government also claimed to have conducted the highest number of Rt-PCR tests. The government also refuted the allegation of Y.V. Ravi Prasad, amicus curiae of the court in the matters related to the pandemic, that it was lackadaisical in conducting the diagnostic tests, and took objection to drawing a comparison with the testing being done in the neighbouring States.
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