New Delhi: After a single-day spike of 78,357 cases, India has registered a total of 37,69,523 Covid-19 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 66,333 people have succumbed to the virus and 29,01,908 patients 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 increased to 1.08 Wednesday from 1.06 Monday.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands continued to record the lowest Rt value in India at 0.69. This was followed by Mizoram at 0.78, Sikkim at 0.81, Meghalaya at 0.82, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 0.85, Ladakh at 0.90, Bihar at 0.94, and West Bengal at 0.97.
Kerala recorded a decline in its Rt value to 1 Wednesday from 1.08 Monday.
Jharkhand replaced Tripura to record the highest Rt value in India, at 1.45. The state witnessed a significant rise in its transmission rate from 1.14 Monday.
This was followed by Goa at 1.31, Chattisgarh at 1.30, Tripura at 1.26, Arunachal Pradesh at 1.25 and Assam at 1.23.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate increased to 8.04 per cent Wednesday from 8.02 per cent Monday.
Mizoram continued to record the lowest positivity rate at 0.97 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat at 1.70 per cent, Bihar at 1.83 per cent, Meghalaya at 2.64 per cent and Jharkhand at 3.33 per cent.
Andhra Pradesh recorded an increase in its positivity rate to 17.26 per cent Wednesday from 16.73 per cent Monday.
Puducherry continued to record the highest positivity rate at 32.98 per cent. This was followed by Chandigarh at 27.26 per cent, Maharashtra at 20.85 per cent, Goa at 19.46 per cent, and Andhra Pradesh.
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million increased to 31,592 Wednesday from 30,851 Monday.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest tests per million in India with 16,381 tests. This was followed by West Bengal at 19,389, Chattisgarh at 20,265 and Uttar Pradesh at 24,283.
Goa, too, continued to record the highest tests per million in India at 1,27,804 tests. This was followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 1,08,532 and Ladakh at 1,07,790.
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