DATA STORY: Among worst-hit states, Delhi has best Covid recovery rate of 97.58%

India on Wednesday reported a net reduction of 101,875 in active coronavirus cases to take its count to 1,793,645. India’s share of global active coronavirus cases now stands at 13.08 per cent (one in 8). The country is second among the most affected countries by active cases. On Wednesday, it added 132,788 cases to take its total caseload to 28,307,832. And, with 3,207 new fatalities, its Covid-19 death toll reached 335,102, or 1.18 per cent of total confirmed infections.
 
With 2,397,191 more Covid-19 vaccine doses being administered on Tuesday, India’s total count of vaccine shots so far reached 218,546,667. The count of recovered coronavirus cases across India, meanwhile, reached 26,179,085 – or 92.48 per cent of total caseload – with 231,456 new cured cases being reported on Wednesday.

 

• With a daily increase of 132,788 in total cases, India’s tally of coronavirus cases has risen from 28,175,044 on Tuesday to 28,307,832 – an increase of 0.5%. Death toll has reached 335,102, with 3,207 fatalities. Now the second-most-affected country by active cases, total cases and recovery, and third by death, India has added 1,150,037 cases in the past 7 days.
• India now accounts for 13.08% of all active cases globally (one in every 8 active cases), and 9.28% of all deaths (one in every 11 deaths).
• India has so far administered 218,546,667 vaccine doses. That is 772.04 per cent of its total caseload, and 15.70 per cent of its population.
• Among Indian states, the top 5 in terms of number of vaccine shots administered are Maharashtra (27576580), Uttar Pradesh (23533025), Rajasthan (21872566), Gujarat (21253201), and West Bengal (19088932).
• Among states with more than 10 million population, the top 5 in number of vaccine shots per one million population are Delhi (347086), Kerala (340855), Gujarat (332745), Uttarakhand (311086), and J&K (293526).
• Backwards from here, the last 1 million cases for India have come in 7 days.
• The count of active cases across India on Wednesday saw a net reduction of 101,875, compared with 130,572 on Tuesday. States that have seen the biggest daily net increase in active cases are Manipur (151), Mizoram (98), and Arunachal (17).
• With 231,456 new daily recoveries, India’s recovery rate stands at 92.48%, while fatality rate remains unchanged at 1.18%.
• The Indian states and UTs with the worst case fatality rates at present are Punjab (2.57%), Uttarakhand (1.97%), and Nagaland (1.76%). The rate in as many as 18 is higher than the national average.
• India’s new daily closed cases stand at 234,663 — 3,207 deaths and 231,456 recoveries. The share of deaths in total closed cases stands at 1.37%.
• India’s 5-day moving average of daily rate of addition to total cases stands at 0.6%.
• India’s doubling time for total cases stands at 147.4 days, and for deaths at 72.1 days.
• Overall, five states with the biggest 24-hour jump in total cases are Tamil Nadu (26513), Kerala (19760), Karnataka (14304), Maharashtra (14123), and Andhra Pradesh (11303).
• Among states with more than 100,000 cases, the five with worst recovery rates at present are Tamil Nadu (84.89%), Assam (86.51%), J&K (87.27%), Karnataka (87.48%), and Puducherry (88.37%).
• India on Tuesday conducted 2,019,773 coronavirus tests to take the total count of tests conducted so far in the country to 350,057,330. The test positivity rate recorded was 6.6%.
• Five states with the highest test positivity rate (TPR) – percentage of tested people turning out to be positive for Covid-19 infection (by cumulative data for tests and cases – are Goa (18.92%), Maharashtra (16.33%), Dadra & Nagar Haveli-Daman & Diu (14.22%), Sikkim (12.79%), and Kerala (12.78%).
• Five states with the highest TPR by daily numbers for tests and cases added – are Goa (19.13%), Tamil Nadu (15.84%), Kerala (15.13%), Meghalaya (14.75%), and West Bengal (14.49%).
• Among states and UTs with more than 10 million population, five that have carried out the highest number of tests (per million population) are Delhi (1035390), J&K (632447), Kerala (558175), Karnataka (441859), and Uttarakhand (428903).
• The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (5761015), Karnataka (2618735), Kerala (2546339), Tamil Nadu (2123029), and Andhra Pradesh (1704388).
• Maharashtra, the most affected state overall, has reported 14,123 new cases to take its tally to 5761015. The state has added 207,790 cases in the past 10 days.
• Karnataka, the third-most-affected state, has reported 14,304 cases to take its tally to 2618735.
• Kerala, the second-most-affected state by total tally, has added 19,760 cases to take its tally to 2546339.
• Tamil Nadu has added 26,513 cases to take its tally to 2123029.
• Andhra Pradesh has seen its tally going up by 11,303 to 1704388.
• Uttar Pradesh has added 1,221 cases to take its tally to 1692709.
• Delhi has added 623 cases to take its tally to 1426863.