Thiruvananthapuram: Covid testing in the district has dropped by almost 45% in the last five days.
The district is cutting 11,000 to 13,000 tests every month this month.
Between August 14 and August 15, testing dropped dramatically from 12,371 to 8,542 in this district.
The number of tests was then taken slowly to reach 11,159 on August 18.
Since then, the level of testing has been in the lower spiral in this district, reaching 6,175 tests on Monday.
In the past week, the district conducted 60,168 tests and reported 6,697 positive at 11.1% TPR.
The government sector only contributes 35% of the test in the past week.
The first level of the antigen test in the 24 hours has been worrying.
The total number of antigens is 21.8%.
In the government sector, 2,076 antigen tests were carried out and 453 was positively confirmed with 25.6% TPR.
In the private sector, 283 was positively confirmed from 1,411 antigen tests with 20.1% TPR.
Fifty-nine people died of Covid-19 in the district in the last seven days.
The case fatality rate (CFR) Trivandrum is 0.98% while for the country, the CFR is 0.72%.
At the top of the Covid second wave week, 367 deaths were reported in the district.