Amid 3rd Wave, Door-To-Door Survey Finds Just 13.5k Of 57L Symptomatic

Results Show Positivity Rate Declining In Capital: Govt

- Sidhartha Roy

New Delhi: A massive five-day survey involving 57.3 lakh Delhiites living in Covid hotspots, aimed at identifying and isolating symptomatic or infected people, concluded on Wednesday. Interestingly, the exercise found only 13,516 symptomatic people with the positivity rate of those who were tested at 6.4%.

Apart from the 13,516 people who were found to be symptomatic by the 9,000 three-member teams that fanned out across Delhi’s 11districts, 8,413 contacts of the symptomatic people were also traced. A total of 18,336 individuals, including 11,790 symptomatic people and 6,546 contacts, underwent RT-PCR tests between November 20 and 24, of whom 1,178 returned positive results.

“This shows that positivity in Delhi is declining. Today (November 25), the positivity was 8.5% whereas on November 7, it was 15.e%,” a Delhi government statement said on Wednesday. District officials said that while the door-to-door survey has concluded, surveys in containment zones would continue.