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Updated: May 19, 2020 1:32:52 pm
Coronavirus-locking security: Thousands of people gathered at the Ramlila Maidan in Ghaziabad on Monday to sign up for six trains that head to other parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
The tests migrant workers who return to Bihar it is to underline the double challenge that the public health experts have warned about — the virus is being carried, and many of the carriers are asymptomatic.
Until the May 18, Bihar, india tested a total of 8,337 samples of migrant workers and approximately 8% were found to be Covid-positive — twice the national average positivity rate that is approximately 4%.
Of the 835 samples taken from migrant workers who returned from new Delhi, as many as 218 were Covid positive. This works out to a positivity rate of more than 26%, while the rate in the national capital is around 7%.
By the way, the count of migrants of the test of each state is not proportional to the total number who have returned from that state.
However, Delhi is an outlier, along with Bengal and Haryana.
Of the 265 samples of migrant workers returning home from West Bengal, 33-year-old tested positive in the test. The positivity rate was 12%, while West Bengal positivity rate is 3%.
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Of the 390 samples of migrant workers returning from Haryana, 36 were found to be positive. The positivity rate was 9%, while in Haryana, the positivity rate is 1.16%.
The data emerging from Bihar is crucial not only to the state of the containment strategy, but also to the national capital.
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In the first place, indicates the presence of a large asymptomatic population in Delhi. Second, it can guide public health authorities in the capital of the country to carry out a contact tracing of these migrants, and to contain the spread in areas that may have gone unnoticed.
Migrants returned from other states reported a positivity rate similar to that of the state of the figure.
So 141 of the 1,283 samples of migrant workers who have returned to Bihar Maharashtra positive, showing a positivity rate of 11% (the state of the positivity rate is 11.7%).
Of the 2,045 samples of migrants who returned from Gujarat, 139 positive. The positivity rate was 6.8%; this is 7.9% in the state of Gujarat.
Of the 704 samples of the migrants that returned from Uttar Pradesh, 21 positive cases. The positivity rate was 3%; it is of 2.59% in UP.
Of the 430 samples of the migrants that returned from Rajasthan, 16 positive. The positivity rate was 3.7%; this is 2.24% in the state of Rajasthan.
Among the southern states, 6 of the 203 samples of migrant workers who were returning from Karnataka positive. The positivity rate was 3%; it is 0.78% in Karnataka.
Of the 430 samples of the migrants that returned from Rajasthan, 16 positive.
Of the 219 samples of migrants who returned from Kerala, 4 were positive. The positivity rate was 1.8%; that is 1.33% in Kerala.
Of the 57 samples of the migrants that returned from Tamil Nadu, 2 positive. The positivity rate was 3.5%; it is 3.43% in Tamil Nadu.
However, of the 367 samples of migrant workers returning from Telangana, 6 positive. The positivity rate was 1.6%; it was 6.6% in Telangana.
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