Tribune News Service
New Delhi, August 3
The COVID virus reproduction number in India increased from 0.88 to 1.2, the highest in Himachal. While Jammu and Kashmir is at 1.4 each, Haryana at 1.
The government on Tuesday said that India’s reproduction number, which reflects the spread of COVID-19, is more than one in eight states, including Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
A reproduction or reproduction number is a measure that highlights the number of people a coronavirus positive person has infected, indicating the severity of its spread. A number below one or one indicates a slowly spreading virus, while any number above 1 indicates a rapid spread.
An official said the pandemic is over, and as far as India is concerned, the second wave is still not over. The official said that new Kovid-19 cases are being reported daily across the world as more than 4.7 lakh infections are being registered every day.
The government said 44 districts across 12 states and union territories reported weekly Covid-19 positivity rates of more than 10 per cent for the week ended August 2.
It said that 18 districts in six states, including Kerala, Maharashtra, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh, reported an increasing trend in daily new Covid cases in the last four weeks.
It said that in the last week, 49.85 per cent of the total coronavirus cases were reported from Kerala.
The government also said that the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in July more than doubled in May. — PTI. with