indiaUpdated: Jul 18, 2020 07:04 ISTIndia crossed a million coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases on Thursday. I expected it to happen over the weekend; HT’s data person (for all things related to Covid-19) Jamie Mullick got it right, though. Irrespective of the efficacy of its measures, the government was proactive in the early run of the pandemic in India. That may be difficult now, but I’m told a million tests a day are well within India’s reach. India has conducted around 13 million tests so far according to worldometers.infoAt a million a day, it will reach the 50-million mark in 37 days; by the middle of October, it would have conducted 100 million tests, covering a little over 7.5% of its population.

Source: Hindustan Times July 17, 2020 22:04 UTC