New Delhi (NVI): India’s doubling rate of Covid-19 cases has improved to 7.5 days as compared to 3.4 days before the lockdown, the Union Home Ministry said today.
The current doubling rate was calculated using the growth over the past seven days, the Ministry said, adding that doubling rate for the week before lockdown was 3.4, and has improved to 7.5 as on 19th April.
The ministry also released a list of 18 States that have shown improvement in doubling rate as compared to the national average:
Doubling rate- Less than 20 days:
Delhi (UT)- 8.5 days
Karnataka- 9.2 days
Telangana- 9.4 days
Andhra Pradesh- 10.6 days
J&K (UT)- 11.5 days
Punjab- 13.1 days
Chhattisgarh – 13.3 days
Tamil Nadu- 14 days
Bihar- 16.4 days
Doubling rate- Between 20 days to 30 days:
A&N (UT) – 20.1 days
Haryana – 21 days
Himachal Pradesh – 24.5 days
Chandigarh (UT)- 25.4 days
Assam – 25.8 days
Uttarakhand – 26.6 days
Ladakh (UT) – 26.6 days
Doubling rate- More than 30 days:
Odisha – 39.8 days
Kerala – 72.2 days
Apart from this, all COVID-19 patients in Goa were discharged from hospital after recovery, and now Goa has no active case, said Lav Aggarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry during the daily briefing.
He said that three districts – Mahe (Puducherry), Kodagu (Karnataka) & Pauri Garhwal (Uttrakhand) have also not reported any fresh cases during the last 28 days. “There are now 59 additional districts from 23 States/UTs that have not reported any fresh cases during the last 14 days,” he added adding six new districts have been included in this list- Dungarpur & Pali in Rajasthan, Jamnagar and Morbi in Gujarat North Goa in Goa and Gomati in Tripura.
The Joint Secretary further said that a total of 17,265 confirmed cases are reported for COVID-19 in the country. “As many as 2547 persons i.e. 14.75 per cent of total cases have been cured/discharged after recovery. A total of 543 deaths have been reported so far due to COVID-19,” he said.
