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Over seven days ending on October 15, though Bidar carried out the best variety of checks on asymptomatic instances and Bagalkot carried out the best variety of checks on symptomatic instances, the positivity rate among each asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals was highest in Bengaluru Rural.
According to the State COVID-19 conflict room knowledge until October 15, Bagalkot had examined 30.3% symptomatic patients and Bidar had examined 99.9% asymptomatic patients. Overall, 97.3% of the State’s 7,35,371 patients until October 14 have been asymptomatic.
However, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) among asymptomatic patients examined over the seven-day interval was highest in Bengaluru Rural (17.2%). While Kopal had the least at 2.9%, the TPR among asymptomatic patients examined in Bengaluru Urban was 10.2%. Vijayapura, Mysuru, Hassan, Chitradurga, Udupi, Tumakuru, and Dakshina Kannada all had a TPR above 10.7%.
Bidar, with the best variety of asymptomatic individuals examined, had the bottom TPR among asymptomatic patients at 1.6%. At 48.6%, Bengaluru Rural had the best TPR among symptomatic instances.
Munish Moudgil, who heads the State COVID-19 conflict room, stated this was just because the rate of an infection was greater in Bengaluru Rural. “A high positivity rate indicates a higher infection in that district,” he stated.
False negatives?
K.V. Rama Mohan, member of Project: Jeevan Raksha, an initiative of Proxima, stated the low TPR (11.7%) in Bagalkot, which has executed the best variety of checks of symptomatic instances, factors to the potential of a prevalence of high false negatives in the area.
“Bagalkot has the highest percentage of symptomatic cases. Under normal circumstances, the TPR of symptomatic cases could be high. But the war room data indicates a lower TPR here. This scenario is possible if the prevalence of false negatives is higher in the region,” he stated.
“The local administration should immediately examine whether the Indian Council of Medical Research protocol for negative testing of symptomatic cases is strictly followed in the district. In case it is not followed strictly, the chances are of positive patients wrongly testing negative and continuing to spread the virus,” he stated.
Most contacts
According to the conflict room knowledge, whereas Bidar, at 24.6, had the best variety of contacts — each main and secondary put collectively — per affected person in the seven-day interval, Ballari (5.5) had the bottom.
Bengaluru had the best proportion of nil contacts per constructive affected person. Of the 28,208 patients who examined constructive in the course of the interval, 13,486 had no contacts.
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