Karnataka COVID War Room in-Charge Munish Moudgil has pointed out that the increase in COVID-19 cases in the state is due to ramped-up testing.<br />'' <br />''He said, one has to look at the positivity rate and Case Fatality rate to track the level of infection spread, rather than the total cases reported every day.<br />'' <br />''He informed that in July first week, 4,500 tests were conducted in Bengaluru which has today gone beyond 40,000.<br />'' <br />''Due to ten times increase in testing, the daily COVID-19 cases have also increased.<br />'' <br />''He said that ignoring 10 times the increase in testing and only looking at the increase in daily cases gives a flawed understanding about the spread of the pandemic to the citizens.<br />'' <br />''According to the data released on 11th of October, the state has a positivity rate of 10.6 per cent since the last three days.<br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">It has a recovery rate of 81.7 per cent and case fatality rate of 1.4 per cent.</span><br />