New Delhi: With 8,82,542 active cases, India has reported 42,04,613 cases of Covid-19 so far. According to the data by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 71,642 have died and 32,50,429 have recovered.
In ThePrint’s daily State 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.
Tests per million give insight into the amount of testing being conducted in relation to the population of an area.
All data is sourced from covidtoday.in.
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Rt value
India’s Rt value decreased to 1.08 Monday from 1.09 Friday.
Puducherry replaced Mizoram to record the lowest Rt value in the country at 0.92. This was followed by Bihar at 0.97, Telangana at 0.97 and Tamil Nadu at 0.99. Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Kerala and West Bengal were all at 1.
Telangana recorded a drop in Rt value to 0.97 Monday from 1.05 Friday.
Meghalaya replaced Chattisgarh to record the highest Rt value in the country at 1.35. This was followed by Jammu and Kashmir at 1.34, Himachal Pradesh at 1.32, Chattisgarh at 1.32 and Delhi at 1.28.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate recorded an increase to 8.05 per cent Monday from 7.70 per cent Friday.
Bihar replaced Mizoram to record the lowest positivity rate in the country at 1.37 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat at 1.78 per cent, Mizoram at 1.81 per cent, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 2.97 per cent, Manipur at 3.52 per cent and Uttar Pradesh at 3.54 per cent.
Chandigarh replaced Puducherry to record the highest positivity rate in the country at 29.65 per cent. This was followed by Puducherry at 29.64 per cent, Goa at 25.61 per cent, Maharashtra at 22.48 per cent and Andhra Pradesh at 16.62 per cent.
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million increased to 36,133 Monday from 33,185 Friday.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest tests per million in India at 17,795. This was followed by West Bengal at 21,671, Chattisgarh at 22,745 and Uttar Pradesh at 27,328.
Goa too continued to record the highest tests per million in India at 1,33,743. This was followed by Ladakh at 1,25,602, Arunachal Pradesh at 1,18,005, Delhi at 95,158.