BENGALURU:
Karnataka has crossed the 1 lakh milestone of Covid-19 tests, starting from the first positive case on March 8.
Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar tweeted: “Karnataka crossed 1 lakh #COVID19 tests milestone. Our fight against Corona will continue with more zeal. We are boosting our testing capacity to have 60 labs by end of this month and will be able to conduct 10,000 tests per day.”
The break-up of the tests in the major testing centres is: NIV 15,249, BMCRI 12,527, NIMHANS 13,134 in Bengaluru, MMCRI 9,280 in Mysuru, GIMS in Gulbarga 7,004, Shimoga 5,137 and Hassan 4,582.