This festive season has some good news with the Test Positivity Rate (TPR) in the city at an all-time low of 7.5 per cent, though the average number of tests per day reduced to 11,000 in the first two weeks of November from 13,000 in October. The average number of daily new cases has also reduced to half that of October. The number of deaths also reduced, but the share of deaths of elderly people has increased. While there was a surge in new cases after the Ganesh festival and September, October recorded more than one lakh patients, now the city is experiencing few cases.

The TPR shows the number of people who test positive in 100 people. In the early months (April to June) of the pandemic, the TPR was above 20 per cent.