Amidst apprehension that COVID-19 neighborhood transmission may be under method in large urban cities, Hyderabad’s high COVID-19 positivity rate (321%on June 23), the highest amongst major infected cities in India, paired with low tests per 10 lakh population compared to other cities has been repeatedly red-flagged by concerned Central government experts.
Indicating the abysmally low testing rates in Telangana, the report ‘Testing Status: Hyderabad and Telangana’ accessed by The Hindu notes, “Just 1 out of 19 private laboratories in Telangana is conducting more than 500 tests per week and testing in Telangana is heavily concentrated on Hyderabad. Tests per 10 lakh population in other highly infected districts (Ranga Reddy, Sangareddy, Warangal Urban and Jagaon) is extremely low.”
The file adds that Telangana has the highest positivity rate (June 10-23) in India (277%) and consistently ranges from 20– 40?y-to-day with the lowest tests per 10 lakh population (June 10-23) in India.
” All COVID-red States are being closely monitored and have actually been instructed to trek testing. Testing is crucial to map out the growth and concentration of the virus in the basic population. A number of States have actually been instructed on this multiple times,” said a senior government official with ICMR who added that letters were released