New Delhi: With 9,86,598 active Covid-19 cases, India has recorded a total of 48,46,427 infections so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 79,722 people have died and 37,80,107 have recovered from Covid-19 until now.
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.
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Rt value
India’s Rt value decreased to 1.05 Monday from 1.08 Thursday.
Sikkim replaced Bihar and Puducherry to record the lowest Rt value at 0.62. This was followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 0.81, Assam at 0.85, Ladakh at 0.86, Jharkhand at 0.88, Bihar at 0.90, Telangana at 0.94, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.95, and Arunachal Pradesh at 0.95. Andhra Pradesh, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu all recorded 0.97 positivity rate while Goa and Tripura were at 0.98, and Karnataka at 1.00.
Fifteen states and UTs recorded an Rt value of less than 1.00
Nagaland replaced Mizoram to record the highest Rt value at 1.92. This was followed by Mizoram at 1.64, Himachal Pradesh at 1.32, Jammu and Kashmir at 1.28 and Punjab at 1.26
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate recorded an increase of 8.36 per cent Monday from 8.24 per cent Thursday.
Bihar continued to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.25 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat at 1.83 per cent, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 3.62 per cent, Manipur at 3.79 per cent, and Jharkhand at 3.83 per cent.
Goa continued to record the highest positivity rate in India at 29.17 per cent. This was followed by Maharashtra at 25.60 percent, Nagaland at 19.61 per cent, and Chattisgarh at 16.29 per cent.
Maharashtra recorded a spike in positivity rate to 25.60 per cent Monday from 23.56 per cent Thursday last week.
Daily tests per million
India’s average daily tests per million stood at 67.
Nagaland recorded the lowest daily tests per million in India at 224. This was followed by Madhya Pradesh at 256, Himachal Pradesh at 317, and Rajasthan at 340.
Delhi recorded the highest daily tests per million at 3,027. This was followed by Puducherry at 3,015, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 2,129, and Jammu and Kashmir at 2,050.
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Please mention the reference of Rt calculations.
Where were they calculated and with which in put data?
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