Coronavirus numbers explained: duplication rate in 18 states slower than national average

Coronavirus (COVID-19): On April 19, India recorded its largest single-day increase in numbers, with 1,577 cases. On April 20, 1,272 cases were discovered.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): Maharashtra continued to increase the number of Coronavirus patients in India, contributing more than a third of all new cases reported on Tuesday. On Tuesday, a total of 1,274 new cases were discovered across the country, of which 466 came from Maharashtra.

A day earlier, on Monday, Maharashtra had reported 552 new cases. On that day, India had recorded its largest single-day increase in numbers, with 1,577 cases.

By Monday night, the total number of people who tested positive for the new coronavirus in the country had risen to 18,467. Maharashtra had 4,666 of them.

At least 25 more people died from the disease on Tuesday, 10 of them in Maharashtra. So far, at least 585 people have died from the disease in the country.

The discovery of more than 1,000 new cases in Maharashtra in the past two days is attributed to the fact that many outstanding test results finally arrived in private hospitals. And despite this large number of cases, Maharashtra may be showing signs of finally slowing down. So while the state has been reporting a very high number of cases for the past few days, it is still slightly lower than its growth trajectory suggested a few days ago.

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Gujarat was the only other state that reported more than 100 cases on Tuesday. With 196 new positive patients, Gujarat now has a total of 1,939 cases, the third highest in the country. Delhi continues to rank second, its 78 new cases on Tuesday, placing its aggregate in 2081.

On Tuesday, the government said that the rate at which India was doubling the number of cases had slowed down considerably after the lock had been put in place. In the week before closing, which was imposed on March 24, India’s doubling rate was almost 3.4 days, meaning the total number of positive cases doubled every four days. However, the growth in numbers in the last seven days suggests that the doubling rate had dropped to 7.5 days.

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A nurse outside Jaslok Hospital in Mumbai. (Express photo: Nirmal Harindran)

Up to 18 states had a much slower doubling rate than the national average, and Kerala had the slower doubling rate of 72.2 days. Kerala added just six cases on Tuesday. In the past five days, there have only been 20 new cases in the state, which now has a total of 407 Coronavirus infections.

Even Delhi had a slower doubling rate than the national average. In Delhi, the numbers doubled after 8.5 days. However, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, all with more than 1,000 cases, were still on the verge of doubling at a faster rate than the national average.

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