: Coronavirus: Bihar’s low testing may affect case fatality rate, warns central team #IndiaNEWS A three-member central team, which visited Bihar to assess the coronavirus situation, on Wednesday warned

Coronavirus: Bihar’s low testing may affect case fatality rate, warns central team #IndiaNEWS
A three-member central team, which visited Bihar to assess the coronavirus situation, on Wednesday warned that the state’s low testing rate may affect its case fatality rate – the number of deaths among the cases detected, Hindustan Times reported. The team asked health authorities to keep a weekly tab of the case fatality rate to improve the state government’s preparedness. Bihar has reported 30,369 positive cases with 217 deaths so far. However, experts suspect the real figures could be much higher. The state has tested among the fewest people per million population in the entire country. Its positivity rate – the proportion of people who test positive among those tested – is fairly high, indicating its numbers could sharply shoot up if testing were to be ramped up.The team, led by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare department Joint Secretary Luv Agrawal, expressed concern about the alarming rise in positivity rate and cautioned the Nitish Kumar-led government that low testing could lead to more cases.The state is currently testing around 10,000 people on an average every day, significantly lower than states with comparable populations. This has worsened further after rapid antigen tests increased the possibility of “false negatives???. The Indian Council of Medical Research has said that all rapid...Read more

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