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India's test positivity rate for Covid-19 down to 15%; Centre ups caution

Positivity rate had been consistently increasing for 10 weeks since February and started to decline in the past 10 days

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Eight states continue to have more than 100,000 active cases. Of these, all - except Tamil Nadu - are seeing a declining trend in active cases

Ruchika Chitravanshi New Delhi
India’s test positivity rate for Covid-19 has fallen to 15.2 per cent between May 13 and May 19 after reaching nearly 22 per cent in the first week of May, revealed the health ministry data. 

Positivity rate had been consistently increasing for 10 weeks since February and started to decline in the past 10 days. 

The central government has also increased the caution level in its latest advisory by recommending double masking, wearing masks at home, and also stating that aerosols - one of the key transmission modes of the novel coronavirus - can be carried in the air for up to