New Delhi: With 4,55,555 active cases of Covid-19, India has recorded a total of 93,09,787 infections so far. According to data by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, 1,35,715 people have died and 87,18,517 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 a 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 that is being conducted in relation to the population of an area.
All data is sourced from covidtoday.in
Rt value
India’s average Rt value stood at 1.06 Friday.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu recorded the lowest Rt value at 0.71. This was followed by Nagaland at 0.72, Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.79, Andhra Pradesh at 0.88 and Arunachal Pradesh at 0.92.
Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest Rt value at 1.31 Friday. This was followed by Maharashtra at 1.24, Himachal Pradesh at 1.21, Rajasthan at 1.20 and Gujarat at 1.16.
Positivity rate
India’s average positivity rate stood at 4.14 per cent.
Bihar recorded the lowest positivity rate of 0.46 per cent. This was followed by Andaman and Nicobar Islands at 0.80 per cent, Assam at 0.81 per cent and Jharkhand at 1.20 per cent.
Himachal Pradesh recorded the highest positivity rate at 15.79 per cent. This was followed by at 14.04 per cent, Rajasthan at 11.09 per cent, Sikkim at 10.82 per cent, Ladakh at 10.69 per cent.
Daily tests per million
India’s average daily tests per million stood at 795.
Nagaland recorded the lowest daily tests per million at 305. This was followed by Rajasthan at 387, Madhya Pradesh at 399, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu at 445, and West Bengal at 448.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands recorded highest daily tests per million at 3,853. This was followed by Delhi at 3,381, Ladakh at 2,639, Haryana at 2,340 and Jammu and Kashmir at 2,022.
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