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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | More Than Half Of Districts With High Covid-19 Positivity Are Himalayan -IndiaSpend Team

More Than Half Of Districts With High Covid-19 Positivity Are Himalayan -IndiaSpend Team

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published Published on Jul 3, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 4, 2021

-IndiaSpend.com

Of India's 83 districts with a Covid-19 test positivity ratio higher than 10% by the week ending June 30, 54% were in the mountainous Himalayan region. Experts ascribe this to infections reaching hilly areas later than the plains, and to low and late testing

Mumbai: India's Himalayan region is reporting high levels of Covid-19 positivity, even as the second wave recedes in many parts of India, an IndiaSpend analysis of Ministry of Family and Health Welfare data shows. As of June 30, 54% of 83 districts with a positivity ratio higher than 10% are Himalayan districts.

India's 137 districts in the Himalayan region are spread across 13 states and union territories. The list includes all districts of Arunachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura and Uttarakhand, and the Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong districts of Assam and Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal. Among these, Arunachal and Meghalaya accounted for 12 of the 15 districts with the highest Covid-19 positivity in late June.

The high positivity in the Himalayan region could be because it is common for infections to spread in plain regions before the hills and possibly due to lower testing rates, experts told us. In Nepal too, Covid-19 has spread first in districts in the plains bordering India before moving north into districts in the sub-Himalayan foothills and the Great Himalayan range. Testing per 100,000 population in all the entirely Himalayan states lags the Indian average, data show.

What the data say

Of India's 732 districts, 83 show more than 10% of Covid-19 tests giving a positive result in the week ending June 30. Of these, more than half, or 45, were from the Himalayan region. The share of such districts has increased from 14% on May 10, 2021 when the health ministry had started releasing daily data on positivity ratios, to 54% by June 30.

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IndiaSpend.com, 3 July, 2021, https://www.indiaspend.com/covid-19/himalaya-district-positivity-rate-infections-testing-759064?fbclid=IwAR1Eg0kOIaVsxdGChyIeU2BIgpwGKSNvZqSDroY-egQbrAuQ6jfTx3aCMmg


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