India’s COVID-19 recovery rate improved to 47.4% on Saturday from 38.29% on May 18.
The Union Health Ministry stated that to scale up testing and enhance reach across the country, city/regional clusters have been established in a hub-and-spoke model.
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“Institutes and labs which have the capacity and expertise for both sample collection, handling/processing (BSL-2 facility) and testing (RT-PCR) serve as the hubs and they [will] involve a number of laboratories which have RT-PCR machines and the requisite manpower as their extended testing facilities,” a senior health official said.
The Ministry added that the hubs are the government labs approved by the Ministries and so far 19 city/regional clusters had been established.
These are in Delhi/NCR, Ahmedabad, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Banaras, Palampur among other areas.
“Clusters on the other hand will now be scaled up