Weekly positivity rate dips further to .067% in Haryana

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 16

The weekly cases of Covid infections in Haryana have dipped further to 129 during the past seven days, but the R Naught value or the reproductive rate of the virus has not come down from 1 for the past nine weeks.

After seeing 137 cases during the week ending August 8, the state witnessed 129 fresh cases in the week that ended Sunday.

The Health Department tested 1,91,137 samples during these seven days with a positivity rate of 0.067 per cent. This is the lowest number of weekly infections after May 3 last year when 146 new cases were recorded in the state.

Five people succumbed to the virus during the past seven days. The deaths this week are the lowest since the week ending February 21 this year when 3 persons lost their lives to the infection.

The new weekly cases have witnessed a dip every week since the week ending May 9, when 1,01,009 cases were reported in the state, barring week ending August 1, when fresh infections jumped by 3 from the preceding week.

Just like the dip in number of news cases and deaths, the positivity rate of Covid-19 also continues to be low in the state. It has a current positivity rate of less than 0.7 per cent, though the cumulative positivity rate is 6.84 per cent.