Mumbai: While the main target is on Covid-19 vaccination, civic officers have observed a optimistic improvement so far as the pandemic is worried: The positivity rate for diagnostic assessments has dipped below 4% for the final 4 days.
The positivity rate signifies how widespread viral fever is in the neighborhood. On January 20, metropolis laboratories carried out 15,672 assessments and located 3.9%. The positivity rate was lowest on January 19 when 18,867 assessments have been carried out and 577 (3%) examined optimistic. On January 17 and 18, the positivity rate was 3.8%. “We haven’t gone past 5% since January 11,’’ stated a senior BMC official.
Additional municipal commissioner Suresh Kakani stated the Covid-19 scenario is underneath management in the town. “We have been conducting over 16,000 assessments on a mean each day,” he stated.
In the early section of the pandemic, the positivity rate was between 20% and 30%. On Thursday, the general positivity since March was 11.44%. “In Mumbai, we’ve got carried out over 2.6 million assessments and located 3.04 lakh optimistic instances because the pandemic started,” stated the official.
The 5% mark is the thumb rule laid down by the World Health Organization (WHO) for governments; 5% positivity for two weeks means an additional reopening of services can happen. A positivity of lower than 5% for a month or two would assist public well being officers to downgrade the pandemic to an endemic standing.
While the rising vaccination numbers and declining positivity rate will assist management the pandemic, a BMC official stated Covid-appropriate habits of sporting a face masks, sustaining social distancing and frequent handwashing ought to proceed. “Some specialists in the West have stated that social vaccination must proceed all through 2021 as the actual vaccination course of will take months to cowl your entire inhabitants,” stated a civic hospital physician.
