Just a week after broadening the conditions that do not require COVID-19 tests, the government on Tuesday said the number of coronavirus tests in the country had fallen and needed to be ramped up. Flagging the declining tests in many states and union territories, the centre has asked them to step up testing to keep an effective track of the pandemic can be kept and take proper action. India has seen over 17 lakh fresh cases since last week - the hospitalization rate and the rush in the third wave so far, however, have been nothing in comparison to the second wave that had pushed the healthcare system to a brink and other top stories.
