Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday launched three “high throughput” Covid-19 testing facilities at Kolkata, Mumbai and Noida, and said India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against Covid-19 as a result of “right decisions taken at the right time”
Speaking after virtually launching Covid-19 testing facilities, th Prime Minister said that these hi-tech state-of-the-art testing facilities will boost the testing capacity by almost 10,000 daily tests in each of the three cities.
Today, deaths due to coronavirus in our country are less than in big countries. And our recovery rate is very much better than other countries,” the Prime Minister said while inaugurating testing facilities via video conferencing.
He said citizens of the country were fighting the global epidemic very bravely.
“With the launch of the hi-tech state-of-the-art testing facility today, West Bengal, Maharashtra, and Uttar Pradesh are going to get more strength in the fight against coronavirus,” he said.
He said Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, and Kolkata are major centres of economic activity where millions of youth come to fulfil their dreams the three new centres will add testing capacity of 10,000 per day.
The three high-throughput testing facilities have been set up strategically at ICMR-National Institute of Cancer Prevention and Research, Noida; ICMR-National Institute for Research in Reproductive Health, Mumbai; and ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Kolkata, and will be able to test over 10,000 samples in a day.
The Prime Minister said that these hi-tech labs will not be limited to just coronavirus testing as they will provide testing of many other diseases including Hepatitis B and C, HIV, dengue in the future.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee participated in the event.
