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Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant (TOI photo)
NEW DELHI: Fifteen districts contribute 64% of the COVID-19 Cases in the country and outside these five represent 50% of cases, according to Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
These five districts include Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Chennai. All of Delhi and Mumbai have been considered as one district each for the purpose of the study.
These five cities are critical to India. States must strengthen containment strategies and carry out rigorous testing and contact tracing, ”Kant said.
Of these, five highest taxpayers are Mumbai (17%), Delhi (11.3%), Ahmedabad (9.8%), Chennai (5%), and Pune (3.4%), according to an analysis by the government expert group.
In the five-day average of cases, exponential growth is observed in four of the five main districts.
Chennai has the lowest recovery rate (12.3%) followed by Mumbai (15.7%). The highest is Delhi with 32.3%, according to the data.
Ahmedabad has the highest mortality rate of 6.4%. Delhi is at 1.1%. The doubling rate in the five main districts is much worse than the national average. The doubling rate in Chennai is 3, Delhi 3.6, Pune 4.7, Mumbai 6.4 and Ahmedabad 6.1.
The data also showed the contribution of the main districts with number of cases and its contribution to the national account. For example, Mumbai, which accounts for 17% of cases in Maharashtra, contributed 61.3% to the state’s cases. Ahmedabad contributed 71.5% to the cases in Gujarat. Chennai contributed about 50% of the cases in Tamil Nadu, while Pune represented 12.4% of the state’s cases.
Indore, which represents 3% of cases nationwide, contributed 53% to the case load in Madhya Pradesh, according to the analysis by Niti Aayog.
Thane in Maharashtra represented almost 11% of the cases in the state, while Jaipur represented 33% of the cases in Rajasthan. Similarly, Jodhpur, another access point accounted for 25% of cases in the state.
In Gujarat, Surat contributed 11.3% of cases in the state, while Calcutta, which represented 1.2% of cases nationwide, contributed 53% of cases in west of bengal. In Uttar Pradesh, Agra, which is one of the hotspots, contributed 22% to cases in the state. In Telangana, Hyderabad, they accounted for almost 61% of the cases in the state, while Bhopal represented 19% of the cases in Madhya Pradesh.
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