At least 14 states in the country currently have fewer than 5,000 active cases of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) each, highlighting the need to focus on states with a high case burden to cut the infection transmission cycle. viral, according to government officials.
They are Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Chandigarh, Puducherry, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Ladakh, Sikkim, Mizoram, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep.
Ten states and Union territories contribute 78% of total recovered cases, with Maharashtra leading the way with more than 1,000,000 recoveries, followed by Andhra Pradesh with at least 600,000.
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Wednesday saw 86,764 new cases of Covid-19 in the country, bringing the total number of cases to 6,310,241. With 1,179 new deaths reported on Wednesday, the number of people who have succumbed to the disease in the country so far since March 12, when the first Covid-19 death from the south was reported, is 83,722.
At least 36% of the new deaths reported are from Maharashtra; on Wednesday, the state reported 430 deaths.
Apart from Maharashtra, other states that have reported higher numbers of deaths are Karnataka, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh.
However, epidemiology experts said that the possibility that states with a high burden of cases are actually efficient in their reporting of Covid-19 data should not be ruled out.
“It must be seen why some states are reporting fewer cases; Is it because they are not testing enough or because their reporting mechanism is not up to scratch? “said Dr. Giridhara Babu, head of the epidemiology division of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Public Health Foundation of India.
“Sometimes during an outbreak, surveillance data takes time to detect in some places. However, it must be monitored, ”he added.
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