GOVT SAYS...

He is part of the Fungal Infection Study Forum and is one of the members who drafted the Centre’s advisory on mucormycosis.

India’s Covid-19 positivity rate – proportion of samples that return positive – dipped from 21.9% last week to 19.8%, said Union health ministry’s joint secretary Lav Agarwal during the health ministry briefing on Saturday. A dropping positivity rate is indicative of slowing of the spread of infection, but experts urged caution.

An increase in cases was seen