TAC concerned over testing among children dropping to 3%
The Hindu
It has asked State to ramp it up to 10%
At its 125th meeting on September 19, the State’s COVID-19 Technical Advisory Committee expressed concern over the testing rate of children falling from 9% to 3% in the last few days.
TAC has recommended that the State should ramp up testing levels of children to 10% in the next one week. In the wake of a possible third wave, the State Health Department had earlier announced that 10% of the daily tests would be among children.
“With only 86 of the 95,618 samples collected from students from Class VI to II PU, testing positive for COVID-19, the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) among school children is 0.08% as on September 15. Although this is reassuring, the sampling rate for COVID-19 of school children has dropped from initial 9% to 3%,” the TAC report said.
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