New Delhi: Shorn of the high numbers of the last two days — powered mostly by special testing camps organised in Uttar Pradesh — India’s testing numbers came down sharply Wednesday, pushing positivity rate past 10% once again. The deaths too have gone up even though the government bulletin says the fatality rate is the lowest since April.
The new case numbers continue to be within the touching distance of 50,000 and the transmission rate too has remained constant.
R value
The effective reproduction number is a measure of how fast the disease is spreading. It estimates the number of people each Covid patient is likely to infect. It is constant at 1.17.
Number of deaths
After two days when the fatalities dipped marginally, the numbers are now up again. In the last 24 hours, 768 people died of Covid. The case fatality rate stands at 2.23% today, and it’s lowest since 1st April 2020.
Mortality rate
Gujarat remains at the bottom of the mortality graphs but the actual rate is steadily command down. Only West Bengal, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Maharashtra, apart from Gujarat, have higher mortality than the national average.
Active cases
With 48,513 cases being reported in the last 24 hours, the total number of active Covid cases in the country now stands at 5,09,447. This is about the third of the total disease burden.
Daily tests
In the last 24 hours, 4,08,855 tests were conducted. This is a sharp drop from the last two days when testing camps organised by Uttar Pradesh had dramatically pushed up numbers.
Positivity rate
The positivity rate is now above 10 once again. This is more than double of what WHO considers is ideal — 5%.
Recovered cases
With 35,286 patients discharged in the last 24 hours, the total recoveries have jumped to 9,88,029. The recovery rate has reached another high of 64.51%. The gap between recovered patients and active Covid cases currently stands at 4,78,582. The 5,09,447 active cases are under medical supervision.
Total cases
The total cases have now crossed yet another psychological milestone of one and a half million. This is lower than some of the predictions that had earlier been made but the graph is still rising sharply.
High-burden states
Maharashtra’s disease burden is now inching towards the 4-lakh mark even though over half of that are recovered cases. The state has seen 14,165 deaths so far.
Tamil Nadu is increasingly emerging as a problem state even though the fatality rate remains lower than the national average. The state reported 6,993 cases and 77 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Delhi reported 1,056 new cases and 28 deaths in the last 24 hours. The state has maintained low numbers for some time now.
Andhra Pradesh reported 6,051 fresh cases and 49 deaths in the last 24 hours. The doubling time is now about 7.5 days and the case fatality rate is 1.06%.
Karnataka reported 5,324 fresh cases and 75 deaths in the last 24 hours. The doubling time is 12 days and fatality rate is 1.93%.
Tests and positive cases
Delhi tested the least of all high-burden states, with just 4,843 RT-PCR-based tests and 13,701 antigen tests. Andhra Pradesh tested 62,979 samples in the last 24 hours.