23 states, 5 UTs record Rt value less than 1, Bihar still has lowest positivity rate

States Tracker — a daily comprehensive look at how much each state is testing for Covid-19, and how fast and wide the infection is spreading.

A health worker wearing PPE kit collects sample from a woman for COVID-19 test, at Chanpora, in Srinagar, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020 | Representational image | PTI

New Delhi: With 8,93,592 active Covid-19 cases, India has recorded a total of 69,06,151 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,06,490 people died and 59,06,069 have recovered till date.

In ThePrint’s daily States Tracker, we take a look at the data on testing and the rate at which the infection is spreading throughout India.

For this analysis, we use three parameters:

Rt value, known as reproduction number, is indicative of the number of new cases that are expected to emerge from a single case. An R value of less than 1 suggests that the rate of infection is slow since an infected patient will only infect less than one person.

Positivity rate is the percentage of people who are found to be infected by the virus from those who are being tested. This parameter indicates how widespread the disease is.

Daily tests per million give insight into the amount of testing being conducted in relation to the population of the area.

All data is sourced from covidtoday.in

Rt value

India’s average Rt value stood at 0.94 Friday.

In all, 23 states and five union territories recorded an Rt value less than 1.

Mizoram recorded the lowest Rt value in India at 0.61. This was followed by Assam at 0.62, Uttarakhand at 0.78, Punjab at 0.81, Jharkhand at 0.82 and Tripura at 0.83.

Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur recorded an Rt value of 0.84. This was followed by Jammu and Kashmir at 0.85, Haryana and Nagaland at 0.87, Sikkim at 0.88, Chandigarh and Maharashtra at 0.89, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh at 0.90, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.91, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi and Odisha at 0.92, Bihar at 0.93, Himachal Pradesh at 0.94, Puducherry at 0.95, Goa at 0.96, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu at 0.97 and Telangana at 0.99.

Meghalaya recorded the highest Rt value of 1.19. This was followed by Ladakh at 1.09, Karnataka at 1.06 and Kerala at 1.04.

Positivity rate

India recorded an average positivity rate of 6.53 per cent.

Bihar recorded the lowest positivity rate at 1.18 per cent. This was followed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 1.60 per cent, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 1.69 per cent, Uttar Pradesh at 2.19 per cent.

Goa recorded the highest positivity rate at 30.20 per cent. This was followed by Sikkim at 19.82 per cent, Maharashtra at 17.58 per cent, Chandigarh at 14.97 per cent, Nagaland at 13.64 per cent and Kerala at 13.08 per cent.

Daily tests per million

India’s recorded an average of 50 daily tests per million Friday.

Sikkim recorded the lowest daily tests per million at 75. This was followed by Nagaland at 210, Rajasthan at 290, Himachal Pradesh at 337, Madhya Pradesh at 360 and West Bengal at 426.

Manipur recorded the highest daily tests per million at 3,948. This was followed by Puducherry at 3,303, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 3,167, Delhi at 2,849 and Ladakh at 2,726.