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Mumbai: BMC aims to ramp up daily COVID-19 tests after positivity rate goes high

As per BMC data, on September 10, the civic body conducted around 50,000 tests which dropped to 29,849 on Sunday, September 12 and 25,581 on Monday, September 13.

Mumbai: BMC aims to ramp up daily COVID-19 tests after positivity rate goes high
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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has instructed the officials of all 24 wards to ramp up daily tests for COVID-19 after Ganesh Chaturthi. 

This comes a day after Mumbai’s test positivity rate (TPR) went above 1 per cent on Monday, September 13. Moreover, officials also stated that it is expected to go up further in the coming days as the city is likely to witness a surge in cases after the Ganesh festival. Earlier, the positivity rate was around 0.8 per cent. 

Therefore, the civic body aims to conduct around 60,000 tests daily including rapid antigen tests (RAT) for early identification of infected patients.

Amid the ongoing Ganpati festival, COVID-19 tests have gone down in the city. 

As per BMC data, on September 10, the civic body conducted around 50,000 tests which dropped to 29,849 on Sunday, September 12 and 25,581 on Monday, September 13.

The anticipation is from last year’s graph, which showed a surge in the pandemic curve after the festivity due to violation of Covid-appropriate behaviour.

Moreover, the BMC has urged people to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get tested immediately if they have any symptoms.  

While the medical experts have welcomed the move, they laid emphasis on conducting more RT-PCR tests, which has a higher accuracy rate than RAT.

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