Till April 19, 18 states did better than the national average. Many states and UTs have a doubling rate of fewer than 20 days: Centre
New Delhi: The centre said today that the doubling rate of COVID-19 cases has slowed down going from 3.4 days before lockdown to 7.5 days.
Senior health ministry official Lav Agarwal told the media today: “Based on the last 7 days, India’s doubling rate has improved to 7.5%.”
The “doubling rate” of the cases is contemplated as a marker of the speed of the spread of the virus. The centre, on that basis, earlier said the 3-week lockdown proved effective and extended it till May 3.
India so far has 17,265 cases of COVID-19 and saw the largest single-day spike over the last 24 hours, when 1,553 cases were reported. Union Health Ministry’s data also shows that 543 people have been killed. 36 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
The health ministry said today that till April 19, 18 states did better than the national average. Many states and Union Territories have a doubling rate of fewer than 20 days.
“Delhi has doubling rate of 8.5 days, Karnataka — 9.2 days, Telangana — 9.4 days, Andhra Pradesh — 10.6 days, Jammu and Kashmir — 11.5 days, Punjab — 13.1 days, Chhattisgarh — 13.3 days, Tamil Nadu — 14 days and Bihar — 16.4 days,” Aggarwal said.
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Aggarwal said, several states and Union Territories have a doubling rate of 20 to 30 days. The list includes Andaman and Nicobar, which takes 20.1 days, Haryana (21 days), Himachal Pradesh (24.5 days), Chandigarh (25.4 days), Assam (25.8 days), Uttarakhand (26.6 days) and Ladakh (26.6 days.
Some states are showing a doubling rate of over 30 days, like Odisha and Kerala, he said. The latter has almost flattened the COVID-19 curve, state minister Thomas Issac said last week.
The ministry also said there has been no case of COVID-19 for 4 days in 59 districts across the country. In Goa, which saw 7 cases of coronavirus, all patients have been discharged and no further cases have been detected.
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