Health department to resume one lakh tests a day
The Hindu
More number of tests are needed to know if Omicron cases are on the surge
Telangana Health department staff would resume conducting around one lakh COVID tests a day. The last time over a lakh samples were examined in a day, was during the second wave of COVID.
Currently, around 35,000 to 40,000 samples are being examined. From the past one week, the daily case load is around 180 to 200 cases. The State Health Minister T Harish Rao said on Tuesday that the daily tests would be increased to one lakh.
Since the Health officials and experts have been saying that detecting Omicron variant in the State is a matter of time, more number of tests are needed to know if the cases are on surge.
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