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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Who gets tested for coronavirus determines infection rates better than how many are -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen & Naresh Singaravelu

Who gets tested for coronavirus determines infection rates better than how many are -Vignesh Radhakrishnan, Sumant Sen & Naresh Singaravelu

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published Published on Apr 21, 2020   modified Modified on Apr 21, 2020

-The Hindu

When testing is done for people within a cluster, the number of positive cases seem to be higher, and vice-versa

Generally, the number of positive COVID-19 cases increases when the testing rate increases. However, this is not always the case, as data from Gujarat show.

Who gets tested determines the number of positive cases more than how many get tested. In Tamil Nadu, the number of positive cases went up when more people from the Nizamuddin cluster were tested and went down when more people outside the cluster were tested.

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The Hindu, 21 April, 2020, https://www.thehindu.com/data/data-coronavirus-who-is-getting-tested-is-more-important-than-how-many-are/article31392265.ece?homepage=true


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