New Delhi: With 8,83,697 active cases, India has recorded 42,80,422 Covid-19 infections so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 72,775 people have died and 33,23,950 have recovered so far.
In ThePrint’s daily State Tracker, we take a look at the data on testing and the rate at which the coronavirus 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
Rt value
India’s Rt value decreased to 1.05 Tuesday from Monday’s 1.08.
Puducherry continued to record the lowest Rt value in India at 0.86. This was followed by Telangana at 0.92, Bihar at 0.93, Tamil Nadu at 0.97, Andhra Pradesh at 0.98, Manipur at 0.98, Goa at 0.99, Karnataka at 0.99, Kerala at 0.99 and Nagaland at 1.00.
Mizoram replaced Meghalaya to record the highest Rt value in the country at 1.44. This was followed by Himachal Pradesh at 1.32, Jammu and Kashmir at 1.31, Haryana at 1.27 and Chhattisgarh at 1.27.
Delhi recorded a decrease in Rt value to 1.28 Tuesday from 1.20 Monday.
Positivity rate
India’s positivity rate remained consistent at 8.05 per cent Tuesday.
Bihar continued to record the lowest positivity rate in India at 1.28 per cent. This was followed by Gujarat at 1.77, Mizoram at 2.36 per cent and Manipur at 3.39 per cent.
Puducherry replaced Chandigarh to record the highest positivity rate in India at 29.64 per cent. Chandigarh recorded 28.92 per cent, Goa at 26.36 per cent, Maharashtra at 23.13 per cent and Andhra Pradesh at 16.18 per cent.
Odisha recorded an increase in positivity rate to 6.88 per cent Tuesday from 6.30 per cent Monday.
Tests per million
The national average of tests per million increased to 36,934 Tuesday from Monday’s 36,133.
Madhya Pradesh continued to record the lowest tests per million in India at 18,057. This was followed by West Bengal at 22,095, Chhattisgarh at 23,167 and Uttar Pradesh at 27,876.
Goa too continued to record the highest tests per million in the country at 1,34,574. This was followed by Ladakh at 1,25,602, Arunachal Pradesh at 1,19,987 and Delhi at 96,385.
Subscribe to our channels on YouTube & Telegram
Why news media is in crisis & How you can fix it
You are reading this because you value good, intelligent and objective journalism. We thank you for your time and your trust.
You also know that the news media is facing an unprecedented crisis. It is likely that you are also hearing of the brutal layoffs and pay-cuts hitting the industry. There are many reasons why the media’s economics is broken. But a big one is that good people are not yet paying enough for good journalism.
We have a newsroom filled with talented young reporters. We also have the country’s most robust editing and fact-checking team, finest news photographers and video professionals. We are building India’s most ambitious and energetic news platform. And have just turned three.
At ThePrint, we invest in quality journalists. We pay them fairly. As you may have noticed, we do not flinch from spending whatever it takes to make sure our reporters reach where the story is.
This comes with a sizable cost. For us to continue bringing quality journalism, we need readers like you to pay for it.
If you think we deserve your support, do join us in this endeavour to strengthen fair, free, courageous and questioning journalism. Please click on the link below. Your support will define ThePrint’s future.