Mysuru district has highest Covid positivity rate in Karnataka

MYSURU: According to the state Covid-19 war room data, between August 23 and 29, the positivity rate, which is the number of positive cases per 100 tests, in the district was at 31.7%, which is the highest in the state. None of the other districts breached the 30% mark. Gadag with a positivity rate of 23.7% is at second place.
According to the data, in this 7-day period, the symptomatic positivity rate is 45.3% while asymptomatic positivity rate is at 22.9% in Mysuru district. On the positive side, in this seven days period, with a positivity rate of just 6.3%, Chamarajanagar has recorded the lowest rate in the state, while Mandya with a positivity rate of 7.7%, is the second best performer.
With a positivity rate of 21.7% Shivamogga is in the 4th place, followed by Chikkamagaluru, which recorded a positivity rate of 20.1% in this period.
According to the war room data, since the beginning, 1,04,285 Covid-19 tests have been carried out in Mysuru. On August 29, 2,894 tests were carried out in Mysuru district. In the last 10 days 8,420 tests were carried out in the district.
Munish Moudgil, who heads the Karnataka state Covid-19 war room, said, “It is good that most of the infected people are getting detected through testing. If the testing takes place at the same intensity, then the positivity rate will reduce in about ten days.”
Krishnaraja MLA and former medical education minister S A Ramadas attributed the high positivity rate to the outbreak of the disease in industrial units and other places which are congested. “After home isolation was allowed for Covid-19 patients, Mysuru is witnessing a huge surge. We have allowed only those patients to live in home isolation, who have separate living rooms and other facilities. A monitoring team will be formed soon,” he said.