India needs to ramp up Covid-19 testing by roughly 10 times, at least one million samples daily, to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. This was stated by Rakesh Mishra, the director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Between 1.15 lakh and 1.5 lakh people have been tested daily across the country between June 10 and 14. Mishra said that testing is essential as demonstrated in Dharavi, the Mumbai mega slum, where the infection is being controlled with increased testing. “One million tests per day is possible but by using different technologies of testing,” Mishra added. “In the RT PCR method, the result time is eight hours if everything is meticulously followed. The RNA isolation process takes a lot of time. In other methods, the isolation of RNA is not required and therefore the result time is only half that of the RT PCR test.”