Nagpur district’s Covid positivity rate drops to single digit after 11 weeks

NAGPUR: Covid-19 weekly test positivity rate (TPR) of the district has dropped to a single digit in third week of May. Cases declined to 1,000 on Friday after having increased slightly for last three days.
TPR was 7.18% in the May 15-21 week. Total cases were 8,331 or a daily average of 1,190. Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) and Zilla Parishad (ZP) conducted 1,15,985 tests or an average of 16,569 per day. TPR was 31.06% in the last week of April and declined to 23.32% in first week of May. It was 16.07% in second week.
The district began seeing second wave from third week of February and its peak in April. Cases and deaths began declining from beginning of May.
In second week of May, tests were 1,14,870 (daily average — 16,410) and cases were 18,456 (daily average — 2,637). Tests increased slightly in third week due to special testing camps held by NMC and ZP. Still, the cases continued to drop leading to low TPR in third week.
Case fatality rate (CFR) increased to 2.95% in third week from 2.62% in second week, 1.75% in first week and 1.26% in April. Deaths declined to 246 (daily average — 35) in the third week. Fatalities were 484 (daily average — 69) in second week, 600 (daily average — 86) in first week and 636 (daily average — 91) in last week of April.
Fatality rate increased in third week of May as cases dropped much faster than deaths. After 76 days, cases went below 1,000 and were 971 on May 17. They increased slightly to 1,189 on May 18 and 1,377 on May 19 and 1,151 on May 20 due to rise in tests through special camps.