An alarming fall in testing for Covid-19 threatens to undermine India's efforts to contain the pandemic, the federal health ministry said in a letter to state governments, as worries grew over fresh waves of infection abroad.
India reported 9,283 new Covid-19 cases, a day after recording 7,579 infections — the lowest in 543 days, Reuters reported. But testing has hovered around one million per day for the past few weeks, less than half the capacity.
“In the absence of sustained levels of sufficient testing, it is very difficult to determine the true level of infection spread in a geography,” Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said in a letter.
