COVID 19 Mumbai s test positivity rate drops below 10 per cent

Thane | Friday | 30th April, 2021

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Image Courtesy: Afternoon Voice / Akshay RedijIn an encouraging sign the COVID-19 test positivity rate in Mumbai has dropped below 10 per cent municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal said on Friday. According to Chahal Mumbai's positivity rate was 9.94 per cent on April 29 when 4328 people tested positive for COVID-19 out of 43525 those samples were examined. The test positivity rate (TPR) is defined as the proportion of samples that return positive among the total tested. “Our positivity rate is in single-digit now with nearly 44000 tests. The data suggested that the test positivity rate started slipping below 20 per cent from April 19..