The Union Government has rushed four high level teams one each to Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur. The teams will visit the districts reporting high number of COVID cases and support the State government's efforts towards strengthening containment, surveillance, testing, infection prevention and control measures, and efficient clinical management of the positive cases. They also will guide in effectively managing the challenges related to timely diagnosis and follow up.
The Union Government has instructed the State/UT governments to adopt aggressive and widespread testing to ensure that the missed out and undetected positive COVID-19 cases are promptly identified for timely and effective tracing, containment and subsequent treatment. As on November 20, 2020 India has tested total of 12,95,91,786 samples. The cumulative national Positivity Rate stands at 6.95% today, less than the 7% mark. Higher volumes of testing eventually lead to low Positivity rate. As per the reports, 34 States/UTs are performing more than 140 Tests/Day/Million population prescribed by WHO.
The exact figure of the four states Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Manipur performs 1187, 271 and 759 tests per day per million population. The total active cases share contribution by these states are 4.41%, 4.54% by Haryana and Rajasthan respectively. 20 States/UTs across India are reporting a cumulative Positivity rate lower than the national average (6.95%).
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