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World Health Organization (WHO) has already declared the COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 as the pandemic of the year 2020, after its first outbreak reported in Wuhan, China There have been numerous efforts laid upon by respective Governments in order to contain and mitigate the spread of the virus One of the primary initiatives in this direction was to ascertain the number of cases through testing Testing for the diagnosis of the COVID-19 is a crucial factor to know the prevalence, spread and transmissible nature of the disease Moreover, how effective the testing strategy is prerequisite for knowing the exact number of infected cases by COVID-19 In India, 1,58,49,068 samples have been tested, out of which 13,36,861 samples have been found to be positive up to 24th July 2020 The testing strategy adopted by India has yielded fruitful and effective results so far when compared to nations like United States, United Kingdom, Spain and Italy Current article focuses upon the dire need to upsurge testing in accordance to daily cases identified testing based on the macro and micro analysis of Covid-19 data in Indian scenario including all the Indian States and Union Territories This article might give some due insights into enhancing the testing capabilities as well as testing strategies so as to contain the spread of the Covid-19 Pandemic Considering that India has started to unlock with Unlock 1 0 and Unlock 2 0, the Covid-19 pandemic has started to disseminate to rural population and smaller cities have shown significant rise in Covid-19 infections Therefore, testing across the whole nation and especially testing of travellers from hotspot zones has become a necessity else, community transmission looks inevitable and India would be at the edge of a pandemic within a pandemic within a couple of months
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