One Million BU COVID Tests Reached—and Counting BU surpassed one million COVID-19 tests the week of April 26, 2021. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi Public Health One Million BU COVID Tests Reached—and Counting Milestone seen as critical for why the University was able to maintain some on-campus learning and activity April 28, 2021 Twitter Facebook What started with a pilot test program back in summer 2020, when no positive results for the coronavirus were detected among 287 samples, reached a huge milestone on Tuesday: Boston University’s Clinical Testing Lab for COVID-19 surpassed one million tests. At its next update, BU’s COVID-19 dashboard will show that 1,000,063 reported results had been processed. (With just over 2,000 positive tests in total, or .2 percent of all tests performed.)