Nearly 90% India Has High Positivity Rate, Rural Areas A Worry: Centre

The skyrocketing active caseload during the deadly second wave of coronavirus has overwhelmed the hospitals and crematoriums.

Close to 90 per cent of India is witnessing a high Covid positivity rate as 640 districts out of the 734 are above the national threshold level of 5 per cent positivity rate, the centre said on Tuesday. The skyrocketing active caseload during the deadly second wave of coronavirus has overwhelmed the hospitals and crematoriums. There is an acute shortage of medical oxygen and key drugs needed to treat the critically ill Covid patients. Last month the centre widened the vaccine net to include everyone over the age of 18. However, most states have struggled to vaccinate its people due to vaccine shortages. Underlining the need to break the chain of transmission,officials have cautioned states about the spread of the virus to rural areas.