New Delhi: With 2,43,953 active cases of Covid-19, India has recorded a total of 1,03,40,469 infections so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,49,649 have died and 99,46,867 people recovered from the infection.
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 gives insight into the amount of testing being conducted in relation to the population of an area.
All data is sourced from covidtoday.in
Rt value
India’s average Rt value stood at 0.92 Monday.
At 0.46, Sikkim recorded the lowest Rt value. This was followed by Nagaland at 0.64, Himachal Pradesh at 0.68, Mizoram at 0.72, Assam at 0.73 and Haryana at 0.77.
Ladakh recorded the highest Rt value in India at 1.05. This was followed by Kerala at 1.01, Maharashtra at 1.00, Goa at 0.98 and Puducherry at 0.97.
Only one UT (Ladakh) and one state (Kerala) recorded an Rt value above one Monday.
Positivity rate
India’s average positivity rate Monday stood at 1.91 per cent.
Assam recorded the lowest positivity rate at 0.25 per cent. This was followed by Bihar at 0.41 per cent, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.44 per cent, Meghalaya at 0.47 per cent, Tripura at 0.50 per cent, Andhra Pradesh at 0.57 per cent.
Kerala has recorded the highest positivity rate in India at 9.52 per cent. This was followed by Sikkim at 7.57 per cent, Ladakh at 5.86 per cent, Goa at 5.61 per cent, Chandigarh at 5.44 per cent and Maharashtra at 4.95 per cent.
Daily tests per million
India’s daily tests per million stood at 698 Monday.
Nagaland recorded the lowest daily tests per million at 57. This was followed by Sikkim at 211, Arunachal Pradesh at 213, Assam at 235, Odisha at 259, and Rajasthan at 261.
Delhi recorded the highest daily tests per million at 3,674. This was followed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 2,431. Jammu and Kashmir at 2,311, Karnataka at 1,804, Puducherry at 1,753, and Kerala at 1,324.
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