PUNE: Nandurbar included in 10 “districts of concern” as a result of late collation of COVID data from April and May Maharashtra With the high weekly positivity rate (WPR), said Zilla Parishad (ZP) chief executive officer (CEO) Raghunath Gawade. In fact, the WPR was just 0.7%, he pointed out.
Gawade told TOI that he had contacted them state health department To ensure that the figures were corrected. He may also be writing to the state government that Nandurbar is no longer a “district of concern”.
A cabinet note to the health department last week put Nandurbar’s WPR at 11.7%, the highest in the state. According to the state’s public health portal, it was 16% on Sunday. The WPR on Tuesday was 11.65% for the week ending July 19. The state average for the same period was 3.99%.
However, Gawade said, “Our WPR is now around 0.7 per cent. The number of active patients in the district is 41 and new daily cases vary between 1 to 5. We do not register a single case in a few days. ”
Attributing the high positivity rate in the chart to delay by officials in updating information on the portal, Gawade said, “We have conveyed this to the state health department. We will issue a note stating that the actual positivity rate is different from the figures updated after reconciliation.”
State public health officials claimed that the high WPRs of districts like Nandurbar were affecting Maharashtra’s average due to late data matching. One of them said that it will also have an impact on the easing of restrictions induced by Kovid.
A senior official of the state health department said confusion has arisen over Nandurbar’s WPR due to multiple sources of data besides delayed data matching. He said that two portals – CV Analytics (based on real-time data from laboratories) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – provide data on COVID cases. In addition, each district prepares a press note daily by checking from laboratories and removing duplicate names and excluding out-of-district patients.
“Three different data hardly match. Dynamic data creates confusion in the final data. This is being considered by the state authorities,” the official said, emphasizing on immediate reconciliation of the data. He said that laboratories not adhering to the real-time data update norms may face suspension.
The representatives of the laboratory said that they do not have enough manpower to update the data daily. “There are fewer laboratories than required and their workforce is less. Data entry operators are even less,” said a senior official of a private laboratory in Pune.
Gawade told TOI that he had contacted them state health department To ensure that the figures were corrected. He may also be writing to the state government that Nandurbar is no longer a “district of concern”.
A cabinet note to the health department last week put Nandurbar’s WPR at 11.7%, the highest in the state. According to the state’s public health portal, it was 16% on Sunday. The WPR on Tuesday was 11.65% for the week ending July 19. The state average for the same period was 3.99%.
However, Gawade said, “Our WPR is now around 0.7 per cent. The number of active patients in the district is 41 and new daily cases vary between 1 to 5. We do not register a single case in a few days. ”
Attributing the high positivity rate in the chart to delay by officials in updating information on the portal, Gawade said, “We have conveyed this to the state health department. We will issue a note stating that the actual positivity rate is different from the figures updated after reconciliation.”
State public health officials claimed that the high WPRs of districts like Nandurbar were affecting Maharashtra’s average due to late data matching. One of them said that it will also have an impact on the easing of restrictions induced by Kovid.
A senior official of the state health department said confusion has arisen over Nandurbar’s WPR due to multiple sources of data besides delayed data matching. He said that two portals – CV Analytics (based on real-time data from laboratories) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) – provide data on COVID cases. In addition, each district prepares a press note daily by checking from laboratories and removing duplicate names and excluding out-of-district patients.
“Three different data hardly match. Dynamic data creates confusion in the final data. This is being considered by the state authorities,” the official said, emphasizing on immediate reconciliation of the data. He said that laboratories not adhering to the real-time data update norms may face suspension.
The representatives of the laboratory said that they do not have enough manpower to update the data daily. “There are fewer laboratories than required and their workforce is less. Data entry operators are even less,” said a senior official of a private laboratory in Pune.
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