Tuesday, 22 June 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
In a major relief on the front of contagion of Covid -19, the positivity rate in all the districts of Uttarakhand has come below 2.5 percent. The positivity rate of the state too has decreased and has come to 1.13 percent. In the week ending June 20, a total of 1,56,028 samples were tested in Uttarakhand and out of them 1765 were detected positive.
In this period (June 14 to 20) Pithoragarh with 2.36 percent has the highest positivity rate in Uttarakhand. Here 95 patients were found from 4027 tests. Rudraprayag and Champawat have a positivity rate of 1.92 percent each and are followed by Uttarkashi (1.50 Percent), Almora (1.48 Percent) and Nainital (1.35 percent). Dehradun with a positivity rate of 1.27 percent is at seventh position in the list. Haridwar, Chamoli, Bageshwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts have less than 1 percent positivity rate.
Incidentally for the period May 24 to May 30, ten districts had a weekly positivity rate in excess of 5 percent. In the week corresponding to May 27 to June 2, six districts had a positivity rate higher than 5 percent while the period of May 31 to June 6 saw only two districts with higher positivity rate than 5 percent in the state. In the period corresponding to June 7 to 13, no district in the state had a positivity rate of 5 percent.
