NASHIK: For the first time since January 2021, the Covid positivity rate in Nashik city has dropped below 1%.
The positivity rate of the city had increased to 40% in April but started dropping thereafter. The officials of Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) said they are still conducting around 6,000 to 7,000 tests per day but the positivity rate has reduced significantly in the last month.
According to Avesh Palod, NMC’s Covid officer, the infectivity of the coronavirus has reduced. Around 6,000 Covid tests are being conducted per day on an average.
The third wave of Covid is projected in the coming few months. Hence, the city residents need to maintain the Covid appropriate norms,” he said.
Currently, the city has around 1,253 active patients, including 593 patients undergoing treatment in civic and private Covid hospitals.
There had been a spike in Covid cases in September last year as the city had registered over 850 new cases per day on an average. The positivity rate was 40%.
But then there was a continuous drop in the number of new cases. The positivity rate had reduced to 10% by January-end. But in March 2021, the city started recording 1,087 cases per day on average.
In April so far, the city reported over 2,600 cases and the positivity rate had also increased to 40% in the first half of April.
But both the number of cases and the positivity rate started reducing from the second half of May. The positivity rate had reduced to 7% by the first week of June.
Of 6,294 Covid tests conducted in the city on Tuesday, only 39 of them, tested positive. The positivity rate was 0.61%.
