<span style="color: #222222;">Puducherry Health Minister Malladi Krishna Rao, in a virtual press conference said that with a target to conduct more than 3000 covid-19 tests a day, 10 teams will be deputed for testing rooms today. Staff nurses, ANMs, dental students would be involved in this exercise, he added.<br />'' <br />'' According to the health department, 341 more persons were tested positive for Coronavirus Disease and 10 died in the union territory. 386 persons were discharged from the hospitals.<br />'' <br />'' Presently, 1692 persons are being treated in various hospitals and another 3078 positive cases are under home isolation in all the four regions. So far,18084 persons are infected by the virus of which 12967 were treated and discharged and 347 died leaving 4770 active cases here.<br />'' <br />''With this, the recovery rate from covid-19 disease stands for 71.70 percent, and the fatality rate is 1.92 percent. </span>