New Delhi: With 7,81,975 active cases of Covid-19, India has reported a total of 36,21,245 cases so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 64,469 people have died and 27,74,801 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 1.06 Monday from 1.05 Friday.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands replaced Nagaland to record the lowest Rt value in the country at 0.66. This was followed by Mizoram at 0.74, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 0.78, Sikkim at 0.85, Bihar at 0.88, Meghalaya at 0.90, West Bengal at 0.97, Ladakh 0.98 and Himachal Pradesh at 1.00.
West Bengal recorded a decline in its transmission rate to 0.97 Monday from 1.03 Friday.
Tripura replaced Meghalaya to record the highest Rt value in the country at 1.35. This was followed by Chhattisgarh at 1.28, Chandigarh at 1.27, Uttarakhand at 1.24 and Delhi at 1.21.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate increased to 8.02 per cent Monday from 7.99 per cent Friday.
Mizoram replaced Meghalaya to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.38 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat at 1.64 per cent, Bihar at 1.93 per cent, Meghalaya at 2.65 per cent and Arunachal Pradesh at 3.69 per cent.
Delhi witnessed an increase in positivity rate to 8.64 per cent Monday from 7.97 per cent Friday.
Puducherry continued to record the highest positivity rate in India at 34.73 per cent. This was followed by Chandigarh at 26.54 per cent, Maharashtra at 20.86 per cent, Goa at 18.21 per cent and Andhra Pradesh at 16.73 per cent.
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million increased to 30,851 Monday from 28,787 Friday.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest number of tests per million in India, at 15,813. This was followed by West Bengal at 18,526, Chhattisgarh at 19,403 and Jharkhand at 19,584.
Goa continued to record the highest tests per million at 1,24,328. This was followed by Ladakh at 1,07,164, Arunachal Pradesh at 1,04,761 and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 87,326.
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