<span style="color: #222222;">Uttar Pradesh has achieved another land mark in testing of COVID samples by becoming first state in the country to undertake over one crore tests to screen Corona virus.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath termed it a great achievement and said that government has conducted 1.5 lakh tests per day for the past 45 days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">AIR correspondent reports, as on Wednesday, the total number of tests conducted in state stood at 1,00,98,896 as per official data released by the State Medical Education Department.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Of these, nearly 42 per cent of tests were done through the RT-PCR method.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">UP's share in the total tests conducted in the country now stands at 13.6 per cent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">State's daily average of testing over the past few days has been 1.5 lakh tests.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Secretary to CM, Alok Kumar said that the state reached this milestone while maintaining the positivity rate around four per cent.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">There is also see a significant declining trend in infection and  mortality numbers in the state.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A significant decrease of 25 per cent in active cases has been achieved by the state in last 10 days.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Recovery rate of patients has been increased to 85.50 per cent which is more than national average. </span><br />