Covid-19: Positivity rate drops to 6.8% amid 80 lakh tests in a week

The all India growth rate of confirmed cases has turned negative on a few days recently and on October 6 it stood at 0.9%. There has been a moderation of the growth rate in high caseload states like Maharashtra where it was 0.7%, while it was 0.6% in Andhra Pradesh where the curve is steep but showing signs of slowing. It is 1.1% in Karnataka, 0.9% in Tamil Nadu and 0.7% in UP.