noida nine people tested positive on the second day of the random sampling drive that was carried out at the delhinoida border in ashok nagar and botanical garden metro station unlike on wednesday no one was stopped for random sampling at the dnd or chilla borders and the dm didnt confirm if the exercise will be carried out at these two spots again in the futurethe second phase of target testing also began on thursday from the slums of sectors 5 8 and 9 where none of the 372 samples collected tested positiveeven as the state government has directed random sampling at borders of the districts gb nagar district magistrate suhas ly added that the sampling will happen randomly at all such areas where likelihood of transmission of infection is high said the dmaccordingly for friday random sampling is slated at botanical garden bus stand and dallupura border area dallupura is a village on the outskirts of the transyamuna region of delhi and is situated near noida border along vasundhra enclave and kondli the dm said that the random sampling drive is aimed at getting data so as to assess the spread of infection and help in issuing necessary advisories to employers organisations we aim to finetune our strategy and focus our efforts accordingly said suhas lyoverall 178 rapid antigen tests were done on the second day of the random sampling drive at ashok nagar and botanical garden metro station combined he addeddr sanjeev manglik nodal officerincharge of testing told toi that while 84 random tests were carried out at ashok nagar border where three tested positive 94 random samplings were tested at botanical garden metro station where six were found positive out of the total nine that tested positive in todays random sampling drive five tested positive from noida while four were from delhi among them four persons from noida and two persons from delhi were found positive at botanical garden metro station while at ashok nagar border two persons from delhi and one from noida tested positive said dr manglikthe dm further added that an analysis of todays antigen testing data later in the evening rendered a logical reasoning behind holding the random samplings we carried out 2712 routine rapid antigen tests on thursday where 27 tested positive while in random samplings we carried out 178 rapid antigen tests where 9 tested positive so going by the positivity rate we had only 1 27 2712x100099 positivity rate from the routine antigen tests carried out across the interiors villages and other parts of the city whereas we had 5 positive rate from the random samplings 9178x100505 that were carried out at the mere two border areas today said the dmmeanwhile the administration on thursday also began the second phase of target testing from the urban slums of noida in sectors 5 8 and 9 on thursday a total of 372 rapid antigen tests and 246 rtpcr tests were carried out in the slums of these three sectors for target