BHOPAL: Positivity rate for Covid-19 has increased by more than 1800% in just 11 days of January.
While one district
Ujjain
(26.71%) has more than 10% weekly positivity rate, five others namely
Jabalpur (9.95%), Bhopal (8.17%), Indore (7.20%),
Gwalior
(6.4%) and Shahdol (5.76%) have more than 5%.
On January 1, positivity rate of 0.2% was reported in the state and it has increased day by day to 3.9%. This is more than 1800% increase in just 11 days.
Positivity rate is the number of people tested positive out of every hundred samples tested.
Number of tests conducted per day in the state has also increased but not in the same proportion. On January 1, a total of 61,440 samples were tested which increased to 79,051 tests done on January 11. On an average around 66,430, tests were done per day in the 11 days of January so far. The same average was 58,856 per day for the month of December as 18.24 lakh samples were tested in the month.
There has been an increase of 11% in the average number of tests conducted so far in the month of January, compared to the average number of tests done in the month of December.
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