Ministry
of Health and Family Welfare
High volumes of Testing ensure falling Positivity Rate
Active Caseload falls to 4.86% of Total Cases
Posted
On: 21 NOV 2020 11:44AM by PIB
The last one crore tests were conducted in a span of just
10 days.
An average of more than 10L tests conducted daily has
ensured that the cumulative positivity rate is sustained at low levels and is
presently following a downward trajectory. The cumulative national Positivity
Rate stands at 6.93% today, less than the 7% mark. The daily positivity rate yesterday was
just 4.34%. Higher
volumes of testing eventually lead to low Positivity rate.
In the last 24 hours, 46,232 persons were found to be infected with COVID. The Daily Positivity Rate of 4.34% point out that a comparatively huge
volume was tested to detect these cases from the population. With a continuous
surge in daily cases in European and the American countries,
24 States/UTs have a
conducted more tests per million population than
12 States/UTs have
lower tests per million than national average, and have been advised to
substantially ramp up the levels of testing.
78.19% of the
new recovered cases is contributed by ten States/UTs.
Ten States/UTs have contributed 77.69%of the new cases.
82.62% of the 564 case fatalities that have been reported in
the past 24 hours are from Ten States/UTs.
27.48% of new
fatalities reported are from
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MV
HFW/COVID States data/21November2020/1
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