The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significantly high cases in India, with over 49,000 testing positive. Health authorities have screened over a million individuals, and have tracked the test positivity rate over time to monitor the disease. The average test positivity rate was 3.8% at the starting of May 2020. So far, this is the lowest rate of COVID-19 positive cases in a month. A better understanding of the spreading of a pandemic comes with efficient screening and analyzing the test positivity rate.
The test positivity rate is referred to as the ratio of positive cases among the total number of tests conducted for a disease. Higher the test positivity rate, faster will be the spread of the infection. It gives clear statistics about the number of infected individuals as compared to that of suspected individuals. Recent statistics given by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)…
