Bengaluru: Covid-19 positivity score has surpassed 5%

In the last week, the average incidence of Bengalureans testing positive for coronavirus has risen dramatically. The percentage of people who are Positive has surpassed 5%. In reality, five people out of every hundred Covid-19 tests are positive.

Cases are on the increase again after a dramatic decrease in recent months. The positivity rate was less than 1% in January and February. It was 2.3 percent last month and 5.3 percent on Saturday. For the successful containment of Covid-19, the rate should be below 5%, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

The positivity rate is an important metric for assessing the magnitude of coronavirus infections and whether appropriate tests are being performed. A higher rate concerns health officials because it suggests a widespread cause by population transmission.

Bengaluru’s rate peaked in July of last year, hovering around 24%, before falling to around 8% in October and 0.9 percent in January of this year. It began to rise in March when the second wave of Covid-19 arrived in the tech capital, and experts say it will continue to rise. Every day, the number of cases detected in the city has increased from 300 or more in the first week of March to over 3,500 now.

Multiple factors, according to Health Minister K Sudhakar, have led to the increasing pace. “We share borders with Maharashtra and Kerala, the two states with the highest number of positive cases recorded in the second wave. People are migrating in large numbers, which has helped the spread of Covid-19. Furthermore, people have let their guard down and are no longer wearing masks or preserving social distance,” he said.

The positivity rate increased after the state’s research ability was increased, according to a senior official with the state’s health and family welfare department. “Three months ago, we were running about 30,000 tests a day. We’ve now doubled it, so there are more cases being discovered,” the official added.

On Sunday, Karnataka registered 4,553 new Covid-19 cases from all over the state. There were 2,787 new cases registered in Bengaluru Urban alone, bringing the state’s daily test positivity rate to 3.79 percent. Up to 15 more people died as a result of the infection.