Delhi, which was testing around 20,000 samples a day, saw its daily tally drop to around 14,000 tests on 31 August. The positivity rate increased to 9.4% from 8.5% last week.
Doubling testing capacity could be easy given that Delhi has been largely conducting antigen tests, but labs say a crunch in resources will make this possible only to an extent.
At 19,073 tests per million population, Bengal is lowest among its neighbours. Govt says testing has doubled this month, but experts cite lack of robust infrastructure.
In an editorial in its internal newsletter, ICMR praises itself, saying it has set an example in front of the world by putting up a valiant face of India.
Maharashtra's positivity rate increased to 19.91% from 15% in June. Experts say this shows Covid has spread faster after lockdown was lifted. However, recovery rate is at 71%.
The study conducted by Indian Journal of Medical Research found the virus transmission occurred at 3 levels, with the funeral of the patient emerging as a super-spreader.
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After negative growth in 2022-23, air cargo volumes grew 18% year-on-year from October 2023 to March 2024 and 20% year-on-year from April 2024 to August 2024.
Troops patrolled up to Patrolling Point (PP) 10 on Monday. Though there are PP 10, 11, 12, 12A & 13 in Depsang Plains, it was decided that only one or two PPs would be patrolled.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
Hold those horses ! Not only testing is dropping, some grand excuses and blames would also drop soon !One of them blaming the migrant workers returning is already doing the rounds! It took one intervention from the Home Minister that time. Am sure he isn’t going to intervene anytime soon now
Hold those horses ! Not only testing is dropping, some grand excuses and blames would also drop soon !One of them blaming the migrant workers returning is already doing the rounds! It took one intervention from the Home Minister that time. Am sure he isn’t going to intervene anytime soon now