As the disease spreads in India, the percentage of tests coming out positive may increase
About one in every 50 tests conducted for Covid-19 in India as of March 25, 2020, have returned positive. In comparison, about a quarter of all tests in Italy, about a sixth in Austria and a tenth in the UK were positive, our analysis of data shows.
This could be due to varying testing criteria in different countries, experts said. As the disease spreads in India, the percentage of tests coming out positive may increase, they said. India tested 25,254 samples as of 8 p.m. on March 25, of which 581 (2.3 per cent) were positive, according to the latest update from the Indian Council of Medical Research. This proportion is comparable with South Korea’s (3per cent) and higher than Taiwan’s (1 per cent).
In comparison, 74,386 of 324,445 tests (23 per cent) in Italy, 6,001 of 35,995 tests (16.7 per cent) in Austria, 65,497 of 484,062 tests (13.5 per cent) in the US and 9,529 of 97,019 tests (10 per cent) in the UK were positive. Data for the US are from The COVID Tracking Project, an independent project run by journalists with volunteers including scientists, visualisation specialists, designers and project managers. Testing figures cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are incomplete, and therefore, lower…Read More
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