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PM must clear bottlenecks to scale up testing: Rahul

Source:PTI  -  Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra
April 26, 2020 16:25 IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clear 'bottlenecks' and ramp up coronavirus testing in the country.

 

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Quoting experts, Gandhi said 'random testing is the key to beating the virus'.

India has to scale up COVID-19 testing from the current 40,000 to one lakh tests per day, he said.

'Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating Corona. In India, a bottle neck (sic) is stopping us from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to 1 lakh tests a day, for which test kits are already in stock.

'[The] PM needs to act fast and clear the bottleneck,' Gandhi said on Twitter.

The Congress has been urging the government to increase random testing in the country.

Source: PTI  -  Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra
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