Increasing uptake of home tests for Covid-19 is being observed with two lakh of them used in the last 20 days while just 3,000 were utilised last year, the health ministry said.

Addressing the weekly press conference, ICMR Director-General Dr Balram Bhargava said overall test performance in the country is being maintained at a level comparable with the second wave. "Testing commodities are in plenty, whether it be for RT-PCR, whether it be for rapid antigen tests or for home antigen tests, or ancillary equipment like viral transport medium or RNA extraction kits. What is important is that we have noted an increasing in uptake of home tests," he said.