{"id":6851,"date":"2020-07-28T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2020-07-28T12:04:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:04:09","slug":"testing-is-key-to-successful-control-of-covid-19-pandemic-says-who-chief-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2020\/07\/28\/testing-is-key-to-successful-control-of-covid-19-pandemic-says-who-chief-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing is key to successful control of Covid-19 pandemic, says WHO Chief Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation, said that testing is key to successful control of Covid-19 pandemic and all the states should enhance their testing capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She tweeted today that high throughput facilities will increase COVID testing in Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Kolkata. Dr. Soumya praised India&#8217;s efforts in increasing the testing capacity. India is now conducting approximately 5.5 lakh tests per day and also plans to take it to one million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organisation, said that testing is key to successful control of Covid-19 pandemic and all the states should enhance their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6851","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}