Rajasthan sees decline in daily tests per million, MP records increase in positivity rate

States Tracker — a daily comprehensive look at how much each state is testing for Covid-19, and how fast and wide the infection is spreading.

Health workers in PPE kits collect swab samples at a Covid-19 test centre in Palakkad | PTI

New Delhi: With 8,38,729 active cases of Covid-19, India has recorded a total of 71,75,880 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,09,856 people have died and 62,27,295 have recovered.

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

Rt value 

India’s average Rt value decreased to 0.93 Tuesday from 0.94 Friday.

In total, 23 states and 6 UTs recorded an Rt value less than 1.

Mizoram continued to record the lowest Rt value in India at 0.40. This was followed by Meghalaya at 0.71, Jammu and Kashmir at 0.75, Tripura at 0.78, Assam at 0.79 and Uttarakhand at 0.81.

Andaman and Nicobar Islands replaced Meghalaya to record the highest Rt value at 1.15. This was followed by Nagaland at 1.09, West Bengal at 1.04, Ladakh at 1.04, Chhattisgarh at 1.04 and Kerala at 1.02.

Punjab recorded an Rt value of 0.82. This was followed by Jharkhand at 0.84, Chandigarh, Maharashtra and Sikkim at 0.85, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh at 0.87, Odisha at 0.89, Puducherry at 0.90, Goa, Madhya Pradesh, and Telangana at 0.91, Haryana at 0.92, Arunachal Pradesh at 0.93, Bihar at 0.93, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 0.93, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu at 0.95, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh at 0.96, Manipur and Rajasthan at 0.99.

Positivity rate 

India’s average positivity rate decreased to 6.43 per cent Tuesday from 6.53 per cent Friday.

Mizoram replaced Bihar to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.17 per cent. This was followed by Bihar at 1.18 per cent, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 1.73 per cent and Uttar Pradesh at 1.88 per cent.

Goa continued to record the highest positivity rate in India at 26.47 per cent. This was followed by Sikkim at 21.36 per cent, Maharashtra at 15.47 per cent, Nagaland at 14.05 per cent and Kerala at 14 per cent.

Madhya Pradesh also recorded an increase in positivity rate to 5.70 per cent Tuesday from 4.52 per cent Friday.

Daily tests 

India recorded an average of 39 daily tests per million.

Sikkim continued to record the lowest daily tests per million at 55. This was followed by Rajasthan at 112, Madhya Pradesh at 287 and Himachal Pradesh at 288.

Manipur continued to record the highest daily tests per million at 3,954. This was followed by Ladakh at 3,196, Assam at 3,030 and Delhi at 1,921.

Rajasthan recorded a decline in daily tests per million to 112 Tuesday from 255 Friday.