Covid-19: Haryana reaches 19,000 tests per day average, total crosses 11-lakh mark

CHANDIGARH: Although the number of Covid-19 positive cases in the state of Haryana has been increasing, the testing in the small state has also been increased, with around 25,000 samples tested in a single day on Friday.
Till Friday, the state had tested 11,03,832 persons for Covid-19. Importantly, on Friday, the single day sampling in the state had reached 24,769 persons. While the government laboratories have taken 9,82,638 samples, 96,425 samples were taken by the private laboratories. While the highest number of 1,70,973 tests have been done in Gurugram district, followed by Faridabad (1,27,771) and Sonipat (82,084). District Charkhi Dadri is at the bottom in terms of sampling as only 12,583 samples have been collected in the newly carved district till August 29.

Average testing in the last one month in the state is around 16,000 per day. From August 1 to 29, a total of 4,75,026 tests were conducted with an average of 16,380 tests every day.
However, average testing in the last 10 days in the state is around 19,000 tests per day.
Additional chief secretary for health Rajeev Arora said despite being a small state, Haryana’s testing is one of the highest in the country in terms of its population and geographical area. Arora also claimed that all such infrastructure and laboratories for Covid-19 sampling were developed only in the past few months after the outbreak of the pandemic.
He said there are 20 laboratories in the state, including 14 government-run and six private ones.