New Delhi: India has reported 39,36,747 cases of Covid-19 so far and of these, 8,31,124 are active cases. According to the data by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 68,472 have died and 30,37,151 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 remained consistent at 1.09 Friday.
Mizoram continued to record the lowest Rt value in India at 0.71. This was followed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.79, Kerala at 0.89, Ladakh at 0.92, Puducherry at 0.94 and West Bengal at 0.99.
Chhattisgarh replaced Jharkhand to record the highest Rt value in India at 1.34. This was followed by both Tripura and Goa at 1.30, Jharkhand at 1.28.
Chhattisgarh recorded an increase in its Rt value from 1.32 Thursday.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate dropped to 7.70 per cent Friday from 7.81 per cent Thursday.
Mizoram continued to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.28 per cent. Bihar replaced Gujarat to record the second lowest positivity rate in India at 1.68 per cent. Gujarat was next at 1.76 per cent, followed by Meghalaya at 3.40 per cent and Jharkhand at 3.43 per cent.
Puducherry continued to record the highest positivity rate in India at 31.55 per cent. This was followed by Chandigarh at 27.59 per cent, Goa at 22.65 per cent, Maharashtra at 21.44 per cent and Andhra Pradesh at 17.06 per cent.
Maharashtra recorded a decrease in positivity rate to 21.44 per cent Friday from 21.81 per cent Thursday.
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million remained consistent at 33,185 Friday.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest tests per million in India at 16,190. This was followed by West Bengal at 20,287, Chattisgarh at 20,911 and Uttar Pradesh at 25,434.
Goa, too, continued to record the highest tests per million in India at 1,30,345. This was followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 1,12,870, Ladakh at 1,07,936 and Delhi at 89,218.
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