New Delhi: With 2,81,919 active cases of Covid-19 Friday, India has recorded a total of 1,01,46,845 coronavirus cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,47,092 people have died and 97,17,834 have recovered from the disease so far.
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 a 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 Thursday.
Ladakh and Nagaland recorded the lowest Rt value in India at 0.57. This was followed by Meghalaya at 0.60, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.74, Delhi at 0.74 and Manipur at 0.74.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu recorded the highest Rt value at 1.37. This was followed by Sikkim at 1.16, Kerala at 1.09, Goa at 1.07, Jharkhand at 1.03, Telangana at 1.02 and Odisha at 1.01.
Six states and 1 UT recorded an Rt value above 1 Thursday.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate Thursday stood at 2.30 per cent.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded the lowest positivity rate at 0.37 per cent. This was followed by Assam at 0.44 per cent, Bihar at 0.47 per cent, Andhra Pradesh at 0.70 per cent and Uttar Pradesh at 0.85 per cent.
Kerala recorded the highest positivity rate in India at 9.57 per cent. This was followed by Goa at 6.51 per cent, Maharashtra at 6.33 per cent, Nagaland at 6.11 per cent and Chandigarh at 5.21 per cent.
Daily tests per million
India’s daily tests per million stood at 758 Thursday.
Nagaland recorded the lowest daily tests per million at 129. This was followed by Madhya Pradesh at 311, Sikkim at 318, Tripura at 360, Rajasthan at 363 and West Bengal at 412.
Delhi recorded the highest daily tests per million at 4,695. This was followed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 4,613, Manipur at 2,383, Puducherry at 2,104 and Jammu and Kashmir at 2,099.
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