Close to 10,000 coronavirus tests were carried out in the state on Thursday and the total tests done so far crossed the 2.50 lakh-mark.
Terming it as an achievement of the state government, Principal Secretary (Health) Amit Mohan Prasad said on Friday that more than 9,981 tests were carried out on Thursday and the total tests till date crossed 2.5 lakh and stood at 2.53 lakh.
The principal secretary said that the number of Covid tests would increase in the next few days as already 20 new TrueNet machines had reached the state and by it test results could be received in just one to two hours.
“These 20 machines have been set up in districts while 50 more TrueNet machines are on the way. Once we receive them, almost all districts will be able to test people for coronavirus infection. After all 70 machines become operational by next week, the number of tests will increase by several folds,” Prasad said.
He further said to strengthen screening of people in districts, especially the migrants returning home, every district had been given Pulse Oximeter while 50 infrared thermometers each had been dispatched to all the districts.
Prasad said that tracking and monitoring of migrants had been strengthened and during survey of 10.48 lakh home quarantined migrants by ASHA workers, 986 were found with COVID-19 symptoms.
The Aarogya Setu app too generated 40,920 alerts and 112 were found positive, 49 had recovered and 1,260 were quarantined.
