KOLKATA: With just a little over a month to go for two years of the pandemic in Bengal, there have been 2.3 crore Covid tests performed in the state since end February 2020, according to data released by the health department.
Over a crore of these were rapid antigen tests (RAT), of which 10.3 lakh - or about 10% - were performed in the last month alone, during the Omicron-fuelled third wave.
