Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan today dedicated to the nation the COBAS-6800 Testing Machine for COVID-19 cases. <br />'' <br />'' This is the first such testing machine that has been procured by the government for testing of COVID-19 cases and is installed at the National Centre for Disease Control, NCDC. He visited the Control Room and the Testing Laboratories of NCDC and reviewed the current status of COVID-19 testing.<br />'' <br />'' Dr. Harsh Vardhan said that COBAS-6800 is a sophisticated machine enabled with robotics that minimizes the chance of contamination as well as the risk of infection to the health care workers.<br />'' <br />'' Highlighting the achievements in ramping up the testing capability, Dr Harsh Vardhan said, government has now developed a capacity to conduct one lakh tests per day. He said, we have tested nearly 20 lakh tests for COVID-19 mark at more than 500 laboratories including 359 Government laboratories and 145 private laboratories in the country. <br />'' <br />'' He further added that NCDC has been now equipped with the COBAS-6800, a fully automated, high end machine for performing real time PCR testing COVID-19 in the service of nation. COBAS-6800 will provide quality, high-volume testing with around 1,200 samples in 24 hours. It will largely increase the testing capacity with reduction in pendency. <br />''  <br />