Less than half a per cent of active Covid-19 cases are now on ventilators

Health ministry highlights India's self-sufficiency in ventilators with the share of domestic production by volume reaching 96%

Only 0.27 per cent of the total active cases in the country were on ventilators, the health ministry said on Tuesday, while highlighting how India had become self-sufficient in manufacturing ventilators with the share of domestic production in volume terms reaching 96 per cent. 

Besides, India is also ramping up its testing capacity, having conducted more than 20 million tests so far and 600,000 tests in a single day - the highest yet. 

Around 25-30 per cent of the tests being conducted are rapid antigen, while the remaining are the RT-PCR tests that are considered the gold standard in Covid