Watch | Oxford's COVID-19 vaccine shows positive resultsAdvertisingAdvertisingThe highest cumulative positivity rate was 14.2 % recorded in the seven day period from August 14 to 20 when 18,874 samples were subjected to COVID-19 test. G. Ramesh Kumar, Deputy Director of Health Services, Coimbatore, said that the focus was to bring down the positivity rate. According to him, a fall in the positivity rate, even when the number of tests remains high, was required to register a declining trend of the disease spread in the district. Meanwhile, the district recorded a decline in the trajectory of deaths reported per week. The weekly deaths declined to 48 between August 21 and 27.

Source: The Hindu August 31, 2020 01:52 UTC