(Riya Singh, Intern Journalist) Patna: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Tuesday told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the state plans to raise the testing rate for covid-19 to over one lakh per day.
Kumar, who was joined by his counterparts in nine other states at the video conference meeting on coronavirus situation, said the state was at present testing more than 75,000 samples daily though the number of RT-PCR examinations, which he called “the most important”, remained as low as about 6100 per day.
“The RT-PCR facility will soon be introduced at five more medical college hospitals which would help in raising the daily average by about 2300. Moreover, we have plans to purchase 10 RT-PCR and RNA extraction machines which would raise our capacity by another 5,000”, he said.
The state government has set a target of conducting more than one lakh tests every day, he said.
Earlier on Monday, Modi had tweeted listing Bihar as one of the states with inadequate testing.
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