dehradun even as the covid19 positivity rate in dehradun registered a slight decline on saturday at 117 the lowest in five days health watchers say given the districts steadily rising numbers more tests were needed to be done to assess the extent of the viruss impact and deal with it doon continued to record the highest daily spike in covid19 cases among all districts in the state and accounted for nearly half of the states tally on saturday 1179 of the 10050 samples tested positive for the coronavirus this was 43 of the total 2757 cases reported in uttarakhand on the dayas per the data provided by the health department the positivity rate in dehradun on friday reached an alltime high of 169 6188 samples were sent for testing with 1051 among them testing positive the figure was nearly triple of the 553 positivity rate recorded a week beforeon april 10 saturday the positivity rate in the state capital was 884 with 589 people testing positive among 6662 tested for the virus that dayon april 11 582 of the 5670 tests done in dehradun returned positive and the positivity rate stood at 1026 the next day april 12 the positivity rate increased to 1053 as 554 people tested positive among the 5259 who were tested that dayon april 13 775 persons of the 6904 that were tested turned out to be covid19 positive taking the positivity rate to 1123 on april 14 the positivity rate rose further to 1123 as 796 tested positive out of the 6240 samples tested on april 15 5411 samples were tested and 914 tested positive as the positivity rate touched 1689speaking about the trend anoop nautiyal from social development for communities foundation said to my surprise even when dehradun consistently accounts for almost half of the states daily covid19 cases the administration has failed to ramp up testing i hope and wish that more and more tests are conducted so that we are able to identify and isolate infected patients its the only way to stop the spread of the virus