New Delhi: With 7,40,090 active cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, India has recorded a total of 76,51,107 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,15,914 people have died and 67,95,103 have recovered so far.
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 average Rt value decreased to 0.87 Wednesday from 0.93 last week.
In all, seven Union Territories and 23 states recorded an Rt value of less than 1.
Mizoram and Manipur recorded the highest Rt value in India at 1.20. This was followed by Nagaland at 1.14, West Bengal at 1.05, Delhi at 1.05, and Bihar at 1.02.
Delhi recorded an increase in Rt value to 1.05 Wednesday from 0.96 last week.
Dadar and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu recorded the lowest Rt value in India at 0.55.
This was followed by Punjab at 0.67, Puducherry at 0.71, Arunachal Pradesh at 0.74, Goa at 0.76, Chandigarh at 0.79, Tripura at 0.79, Karnataka at 0.80, Andhra Pradesh at 0.81, Jharkhand at 0.83, Meghalaya at 0.83, Maharashtra at 0.84, Uttar Pradesh at 0.84, Uttarakhand at 0.84, Himachal Pradesh at 0.85, Kerala at 0.85, Telangana at 0.85, Assam at 0.86, Odisha at 0.86, Sikkim at 0.86, Tamil Nadu at 0.86, Madhya Pradesh at 0.89, Gujarat at 0.94, Jammu and Kashmir at 0.94, Chhattisgarh at 0.95, Haryana at 0.95, Ladakh at 0.95, Rajasthan at 0.96, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.99.
Positivity rate
India recorded a decrease in its average positivity rate to 5.93 per cent Wednesday, from 6.43 per cent last week.
Mizoram continued to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.04 per cent. This was followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 1.05 per cent, Bihar at 1.07, Uttar Pradesh at 1.54 per cent and Assam at 1.65 per cent.
Haryana recorded an increase in its positivity rate to 5.01 per cent Wednesday from 4.41 per cent last week.
Goa, too, continued to record the highest positivity rate in India at 21.14 per cent. This was followed by Nagaland at 16.38 per cent, Sikkim at 15.58 per cent, Kerala at 14.04 per cent, Maharashtra at 13.43 per cent.
Daily tests per million
India’s average daily tests per million stood at 39.
Nagaland recorded the lowest daily tests per million in India at 232. This was followed by Madhya Pradesh at 270, Rajasthan at 304, West Bengal at 439, Meghalaya at 453.
Ladakh recorded the highest daily tests per million at 3,196. This was followed by Delhi at 3,024, Puducherry at 2,864, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 2,270 and Jammu and Kashmir at 1,862.
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