NEW DELHI - A glimmer of hope has emerged for the Indian capital in its fight against Covid-19 with a steady fall in daily new infections. New cases have dropped from an average of 3,400 per day for the week beginning June 19, to a daily average of 1,430 for the seven days since July 14. Delhi, in fact, recorded its lowest daily increase since May 27 with 954 cases.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI - A glimmer of hope has emerged for the Indian capital in its fight against Covid-19 with a steady fall in daily new infections. New cases have dropped from an average of 3,400 per day for the week beginning June 19, to a daily average of 1,430 for the seven days since July 14. Delhi, in fact, recorded its lowest daily increase since May 27 with 954 cases.
"There are policies that mandate compulsory quarantine in government facilities, which has been a huge, huge hurdle in getting people to come forward to actually get tested," he said. More than half the active cases in Delhi as of July 21 were in home quarantine and placed under regular observation of state health workers.
But, according to a report in The Hindu newspaper, only around 1,670 of the 285,225 rapid tests that showed up as negative between June 18 and July 16 in Delhi were retested using the RT-PCR technique; 262 of them turned out to be positive. This means there are many asymptomatic positive cases who could still be passing on the infection to others in the community.
With more than 45,000 daily new infections pushing the total tally of cases to 1,238,635 cases Thursday , there have been growing calls for India to ramp up its testing and for the ICMR to further relax its testing norms. Dr Rajni Kant, the head of the ICMR's Research Management, Policy, Planning and Coordination Cell told The Straits Times that the testing criteria have been"expanded as per the need of the situation" and that lack of testing kits has never been a concern.
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