Covid positivity up 11% in two weeks; daily cases set to hit 200,000 today

In India, 92% adults have received their first dose, while 68% are fully vaccinated

With daily Covid cases touching nearly 200,000 in less than a fortnight, India’s case positivity rate, too, has gone up from 1 per cent on December 30, 2021, to over 11 per cent on Wednesday. The number of districts with a positive rate of more than 5 per cent has grown nearly fourfold in the past one week, from less than 80 to 300 on January 11, according to the health ministry data.

There are eight states where weekly cases and the positivity rates have risen sharply in the past one week. In Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil