{"id":417780,"date":"2021-05-31T11:18:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T05:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=417780"},"modified":"2021-05-31T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T07:11:02","slug":"at-delhi-airport-random-covid-testing-since-april-throws-up-positivity-rate-of-5-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/at-delhi-airport-random-covid-testing-since-april-throws-up-positivity-rate-of-5-77\/","title":{"rendered":"At Delhi airport, random Covid testing since April throws up positivity rate of 5.77%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since random testing for Covid-19 began at the Delhi airport around two months ago, 22,926 passengers have been tested of which 1,325 results were positive \u2013 a positivity rate of 5.77 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>Testing had begun following orders issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority.<\/p>\n<p>In the first few days of April, around 900-1,000 passengers were being tested in a day. Since then, fewer tests are being carried out as passenger footfall dipped and Terminal 2 being closed as a result, said an official in-charge of random testing. <\/p>\n<p>While tests were being conducted in the arrival halls of both Terminals 2 and 3 till May 17, they are now conducted in the arrival hall of Terminal 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since random testing for Covid-19 began at the Delhi airport around two months ago, 22,926 passengers have been tested of which 1,325 results were positive \u2013 a positivity rate of 5.77 per cent. Testing had begun following orders issued by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority. In the first few days of April, around 900-1,000 passengers were being tested in a day. Since then, fewer tests are being carried out as passenger footfall dipped and Terminal 2 being closed as a result, said an official in-charge of random testing. While tests were being conducted in the arrival halls of both Terminals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}