Chandigarh positivity rate half of national average

CHANDIGARH: At 1%, the Covid positivity rate of Chandigarh is half of the national average of 2%. Tests per million per day are more than Haryana that has a positivity rate lower than city. It is known that higher the testing, the more is the positivity rate.
The total positivity rate in Punjab is 0.4% and 0.2% in Haryana. Tests per million per day in Chandigarh are 1,295 against the national average of 1,202. In Haryana, tests per million per day are 780.
Testing has reduced from 2,000 daily to 1,500 since June
25. “Even though the testing is more than the national average in the city, it is still better to enhance it as the overall testing in the country has come down,” said a public health expert. He said, “There have been serological surveys which convey that many people have been infected in the past and most of them were asymptomatic.”
In PGI, the positivity rate is 0.45%, while in GMCH 32 it is 0.4%. Testing has also started at Sukhna Lake. The UT health department is also planning to rope in CTU buses to ramp up mobile vaccination in the city from next week.
Meanwhile, the number of mucormycosis cases has reduced both in PGI and Government Medical College and Hospital, Sector 32. “There are only three or four patients coming daily now, and the fatality rate has also come down to 11%,” said Prof Jagat Ram, director, PGI. In GMCH, the active cases are 22 and four out of these are expected to be discharged.