New Delhi, (thestates.news) Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday stressed on the need to scale up the level of testing in the country to battle the COVID-19 menace.
Terming the present level of testing in the country as inadequate, Dr Singh, speaking in a video released by the Congress party, said, ‘Without aggressive testing facilities, we cannot conquer this menace.’
Speaking on the issue, former union minister and party leader Jairam Ramesh said to reach a threshold level of testing of one per cent of the country’s population, we need to do 10 million tests.
‘We have the capacity to triple the amount of testing. If we are to reach the threshold of 1 per cent of the population, we have to do 10 million tests,’ Mr Ramesh said.uni
India needs aggressive testing to conquer COVID-19: Manmohan Singh
