GOVT: COVID SPREAD IN EIGHT STATES A CONCERN
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said India’s reproductive number that denotes the spread of Covid-19 is more than one in eight states, including Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Reproduction number is a measure that highlights the number of people a coronavirus positive person infects, thereby reflecting the severity of its spread. A number of 1 or below indicates a slowly spreading virus while any number above 1 indicates a rapid spread.
An official said the pandemic is far from over, and the second wave, as far as India is concerned, is still not over. The government said 44 districts across 12 states and Union territories reported more than 10% weekly Covid-19 positivity rate in the week ending August 2.
REPRODUCTION OR REPRODUCTION NUMBER IS A MEASURE THAT HIGHLIGHTS THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE A COVID PATIENT INFECTS
NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday said India’s reproductive number that denotes the spread of Covid-19 is more than one in eight states, including Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Reproduction or reproduction number (R-value) is a measure that highlights the number of people a coronavirus positive person infects, thereby reflecting the severity of its spread. A number of one or below one indicates a slowly spreading virus while any number above 1 indicates a rapid spread.
An official said the pandemic is far from over, and the second wave, as far as India is concerned, is still not over. The daily new Covid-19 cases being reported across the world are still high as more than 4.7 lakh infections are being recorded everyday, the official added.
The government said 44 districts across 12 states and Union Territories reported more than 10 per cent weekly Covid-19 positivity rate in the week ending August 2. It said that 18 districts from six states, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, reported an increasing trend in daily new Covid cases in last four weeks. It added that in the last week, 49.85 per cent of the total coronavirus cases were reported from Kerala. The government also said that the total number of Covid-19 vaccine doses administered in July is more than double of that in May.
Meanwhile, India’s Covid-19 tally climbed to 31,726,507 on Tuesday with 30,549 more people testing positive for the disease while the active caseload declined after six days, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 425,195 with 422 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed.
The number of active cases came down to 404,958, which comprises 1.28 per cent of the total infections. The national Covid-19 recovery rate increased to 97.38 per cent, it showed.
A decrease of 8,760 cases has been recorded in the active Covid-19 caseload in a span of 24 hours.