Covid positivity rate still alarming in Hamirpur & Mandi district of Himachal

Positivity rate of Hamipur and Mandi district is keeping above five, and alarming however in the rest of state  keeping  between 2.2 to 2.5 in the last three days, a Himachal State Government officer said .
State Secretary Health Mr Amitav Avasti said in Covid bulletin issued to media here today that Currently virus load is above threshold level as there are about 1766 active cases in the hill state. Hamirpur district having 422 active cases in the district recorded Covid positivity rate around 5.5 however it is 2.5 in Kangra district having  highest 440 active cases.
Mandi district still has 370 active cases and a positivity rate recorded 5.4 in the state. Positivity rate of Shimla is 2.2 ( active cases-172), However baring Bilaspur Covid positivity rate is below one in the rest of district Bilaspur with virus load of 170 cases have positivity rate 1.7. 
The state seemed to be performing on the vaccination front as the dependence of Hospitalization have reduced substantially: only 12.45 per cent ICU beds are occupied by the Covid patients out of 257 beds similarly only 2.67 pc oxygen equipped beds are occupied out of the total 2475 oxygenated beds .
State recorded 2.18 lakh positive cases including 224 in the last 24 hrs. As many as 2.12 people recovered from the pandemic and 3646 died. 11 Covid patients also died of Mucormycosis in the state.
Beside Covid ,due to prolonged rainy seasons Scrub Typhus also become prevalent in the  state as around 300 cases were traced so far nearly 100 in Shimla IGMC. Half a dozen of people  died of the Scrub Typhus in the current monsoon season. Indra Gandhi Medical college recorded two death of Scrub Typhus patients as one patient died on Sep 18 and another on Sep 22 in the Hospital, IGMC official informed us.