THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Covid testing in the district has dropped by nearly 45% in the past five days. The district was logging 11,000 to 13,000 tests on a daily basis this month. Between August 14 and August 15, testing dropped drastically from 12,371 to 8,542 in the district. The number of tests then picked up slowly to reach 11,159 by August 18. Since then, testing rate has been on a downward spiral in the district, coming to as low as 6,175 tests on Monday.
In the past one week, the district did 60,168 tests and reported 6,697 positives at a TPR of 11.1%. The government sector has accounted for only 35% of tests in the past one week.
Antigen test positivity rate in the last 24 hours has been alarming. The total antigen positivity was 21.8%. In the government sector, 2,076 antigen tests were done and 453 positives were confirmed with a TPR of 25.6%. In the private sector, 283 positives were confirmed out of 1,411 antigen tests with a TPR of 20.1%.
Fifty-nine persons have died of Covid-19 in the district in the past seven days. The case fatality rate (CFR) of Trivandrum is 0.98% whereas for the state, the CFR is 0.72%. In the peak week of Covid second wave, 367 deaths were reported in the district.
