‘ILI positivity’ rate low across state, climbs in Bengaluru: Munish Moudgil
BENGALURU:
As many as 2 per cent of patients with symptoms of influenza-like illness (ILI) in Bengaluru have tested positive for Covid-19. This is part of the findings of a door-to-door survey.
Of 24.81 lakh households surveyed in Bengaluru Urban, 12,556 or 0.33 per cent had ILI symptoms. Of these, 3007 were tested and 69 of them, or 2.3 per cent, came positive.
Commenting on the high ILI positivity rate, Munish Moudgil, head of the state Covid-19 war room, said, “Most revealing is that while the ILI positivity rate across Karnakata has remained low, that in BBMP limits has gone up. You can see it has gone up from June 3. We are tracking the positivity rate (positive cases per 100 tests) for ILI across districts. The ILI positivity rate increase (where no other history or source of infection is traceable) means a spread by someone who was not tracked (who could have been an inter-state arrival or a positive case whose contact the present new patient is).”
The household survey began on April 23 and has covered covered 89 per cent of all households in the state so far. While 1.75 lakh people had ILI symptoms, 44,000 or 25 per cent were tested for the virus. Of the latter, only 123 or 0.3 per cent tested positive statewide.
Officials said eight districts — Belagavi, Kalaburagi, Mandya, Raichur, Mysuru, Shivamogga, Ramanagara and Gadag — need to conduct more tests among ILI patients.
From June 1 to 14 in Bengaluru Urban, out of 2,149 primary contacts, 5.3 per cent (113) tested positive; 0.7 per cent (89) out of 13,649 domestic travellers, pregnant women and asymptomatic cases tested positive; 13 (1.3%) out of 1014 SARI patients tested positive; 61 (5.6%) out of 1096 ILI patients tested positive; and in all categories 292 (1.1%) out of 27,285 patients tested positive.
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