New Delhi: With 5,61,908 active cases of Covid-19, India has recorded a total of 82,29,313 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,22,607 people have died and 75,44,798 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 increased to 0.93 Sunday.
Sikkim recorded the lowest Rt value in India at 0.70. This was followed by Nagaland at 0.74, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 0.75, Karnataka at 0.76, Assam at 0.78, Bihar at 0.80, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Tripura at 0.82, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.86, Maharashtra at 0.86, Puducherry at 0.86, Chhattisgarh at 0.87, Andhra Pradesh at 0.88, Odisha at 0.89, Tamil Nadu at 0.90, Manipur at 0.92, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh at 0.93, Goa and Jammu & Kashmir at 0.94, Punjab and Uttarakhand at 0.95, Kerala at 0.97, Rajasthan at 0.98, Telangana at 0.98, and West Bengal at 0.99.
Twenty four states and four Union Territories (UTs) recorded an Rt value of less than 1.
Mizoram recorded the highest Rt value in India at 1.30. Delhi recorded the second highest Rt value at 1.20. This was followed by Himachal Pradesh and Haryana at 1.17, Ladakh at 1.11, Chandigarh at 1.07, and Meghalaya at 1.05.
Positivity rate
India’s average positivity rate stood at 4.34 per cent Sunday.
Bihar recorded the lowest positivity rate in India at 0.55 per cent. This was followed by Jharkhand at 0.85 per cent, Uttar Pradesh at 1.43 per cent, and Assam at 1.54 per cent.
Goa recorded the highest positivity rate at 14.22 per cent. This was followed by Nagaland at 14.09 per cent, Kerala at 12.89 per cent, Sikkim at 12.67 per cent and Rajasthan at 10.16 per cent.
Daily tests per million
India’s average daily tests per million stood at 34 Sunday.
Rajasthan recorded the lowest daily tests per million at 177. This was followed by Meghalaya at 225, Nagaland at 245, Madhya Pradesh at 305, and Tripura at 341.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded the highest daily tests per million at 2,575. This was followed by Delhi at 2,369, Jharkhand at 2,264, Puducherry at 2,248.
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