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Covid positivity: a heavy load, does it explode?

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The Print on 20 August told us that “Maharashtra’s positivity rate increased to 19.91% from 15% in June". Now the same report said that testing in Maharashtra had increased seven-fold —that’s right—since June.

Still, there was this significant increase in the positivity rate too. The inference: the virus is spreading faster in Maharashtra than we can monitor it, outstripping even the pace of testing.

Another report published by Hindustan Times on 7 August discussed Mumbai’s positivity rate, which came “down to 20.83%, from 21.68% in July." Mark the decrease, fair enough, but the issue here is that at 20+%, that positivity rate is troublingly high.

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