New Delhi: With 83,883 new cases, India recorded the highest single day spike in coronavirus cases Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
India’s total Covid-19 tally has now crossed the 38-lakh mark. As of 3 September, the country has recorded 38,53,406 total cases, 67,376 deaths and 29,70, 492 recoveries.
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 has increased to 1.09 from 1.08 in the last 24 hours.
Jharkhand continued to record the highest Rt value for the second consecutive day at 1.35. This was followed by Chhattisgarh and Goa in the second position at 1.32. Tripura was in the third spot at 1.29, followed by Assam at 1.28 and Arunachal Pradesh at 1.25.
Mizoram displaced Andaman and Nicobar Islands to record the lowest Rt value at 0.61. Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded an Rt value of 0.73. This was followed by Ladakh at 0.84, Sikkim at 0.87 and Meghalaya at 0.92.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate dropped to 7.81 per cent Thursday from 8.04 per cent Wednesday. The states recording the highest positivity rates remained the same in the last 24 hours.
Puducherry continued to record the highest positivity rate but saw a decrease in value to 32.77 per cent Thursday from Wednesday’s 32.98 per cent. This was followed by Chandigarh (27.94 per cent), Maharashtra (21.81 per cent), Goa (20.9 per cent) and Andhra Pradesh (17.2 per cent).
The states with the lowest positivity rates too remained the same in the last 24 hours. Mizoram continued to record the lowest positivity rate of 0.93 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat (1.73 per cent), Bihar (1.75 per cent), Meghalaya (3.05 per cent) and Jharkhand (3.43 per cent).
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million increased to 33,185 Thursday from 31,592 Wednesday.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest tests per million in India, with 16,632 tests. This was followed by West Bengal at 19,832, Chhattisgarh at 20,708, Uttar Pradesh at 24,859 and Jharkhand 25,399 tests.
Goa, meanwhile, continued to record the highest tests per million in India at 1,28,881 tests. This was followed by Arunachal Pradesh at 1,10,457, Ladakh at 1,07,936, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu at 99,016, and Delhi at 87,463.
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