Puducherry has started testing in higher numbers, finally. 2500 tests today. Good.
Kerala (+3402) and Odisha (+3748) continue to ask for trouble, testing at 7 and 8% with half of it with AG. They both need 20K extra tests per day. How long do they need to understand what needs to be done. It has been several days of this, now. J&K is another place that was always testing very well, that i sletting the positivity go up near 7% now. Give it two weeks and the case numbers will go up to twice and then they can't even easily increase RT-PCR testing. The same mistakes keep on getting repeated from state to state.
Expecting +25K from Maharashtra today. They did 97K tests, it seems a 5% rise from last week. The cases rise at 10% from week to week. This is what they have always done. Increase the testing at half the rate of the increase of cases. So positivity keeps on rising, and nothing ever improves, deaths being the worst problem. Still not adding the 50K or 100K AG tests they need to add.
Maharashtra had appointed a committee early last month to "evaluate AG tests" (laughably, already several weeks after ICMR did their evaluation, approved three kit companies, and we had seen how it worked in Delhi, UP, etc). I complained then, saying it was too late. Now, a month later, they still have not evaluated AG tests and done the needful. And patients keep on dying within 24 hours of hospitalization in MAH. Why can't people see the monster standing right in front of them?
