MOHALI: The Mohali district has the highest positivity rate of 12% in the state of Punjab, which is 10 times more than the percentage of the state, but is placed 9th in the state for test per million (TPM). Punjab’s positivity rate under all testing was at 1.1% on January 9, which was 1.5% on December 31.
This trend has decreased in January by 0.4%, which as compared to the national rate is quite less. National positivity rate of 5.5% is much lesser than the Mohali district, but Punjab is lesser at 1.1%.
“The cumulative state of Covid-19 positivity rate stands at 1.1 % as on date, less than the 7% mark, while the daily positivity rate is just 1.2 %. Higher volumes of testing leads to low positivity rate,” said deputy commissioner Girish Dayalan.
The tests per million (TPM) figure of Mohali 1,56,484 in the state, whereas the state’s figures are 1,35,213, which is 11th in the country.
Kapurthala tops the list at 2,20,915 TPM, followed by Jalandhar at 2,18,355, SBS Nagar at 1,88,385, Pathankot at 1,82,223, Gurdaspur at 1,79,166, Ropar at 1,76,423, Ludhiana at 1,73,092 and Hoshiarpur at 1,62,451.
Mohali has 933 active cases, of which, 432 are under home isolation and the district has seen a total of 18,740 positive cases so far. Of these, 17,456 have recovered and 933 cases are still active. The total deaths in the district are 351.