Covid-19: Delhi has highest infection rate, Tamil Nadu is showing recovery
India’s coronavirus infection
rate – positive results as a proportion of tests conducted – has increased
sharply from 3.5 per cent on April 1 to 4.6 per cent on April 19, reveal data
released by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
As
on April 19, India had tested 383,985 people for Covid-19, and found 17,615 of
them (4.6 per cent) to be positive for the virus. By comparison, the total
number of confirmed cases in India as on April 1 was 2,059, or 3.5 per cent of
the 47,951 tests conducted till then.
However,
if one were to look at the same data in a different way, the tally of confirmed
Covid-19 cases in India has seen a 10-fold growth since the start of the month,
against an increase of about 14 times in the total number of tests conducted
during the same period. India has significantly ramped up its testing
capabilities lately to keep a check on the spread of coronavirus infections
in the country.
Among
the 15 most affected Indian states with more than 100 confirmed Covid-19 cases,
five have seen a spike in infection rate, and the rest a decline.
The
sharpest rise in infection rate has been seen in Delhi – of around two
percentage points between April 1 and 19. Delhi has tested
24,387 samples till April 19 and recorded 2,003 Covid-19-positive cases — an
infection rate of 8.2 per cent. The best performance on this count has come
from Tamil Nadu, where the infection rate has dropped from 13 per cent at the
start of the month to 3.6 per cent now.
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