Covid-19 Update: India’s R Value Falls To 0.92, Drops Below 1 In Kerala And Maharashtra Too

<p><strong>New Delhi:</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> India&rsquo;s reproduction value for Covid-19 dropped to 0.92 by mid-September after remaining over 1 for a long time in August, a PTI report said, quoting researchers.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">R value reflects the average number of people a single Covid positive person could infect, and measures how fast the pandemic is spreading.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The report, however, said the R values of Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru, are still over 1. Delhi and Pune have recorded R below 1.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What has come as a relief is the below-1 R recoded by Maharashtra and Kerala, the two states with the highest number of active cases.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">India&rsquo;s R-value, which was 1.17 by the end of August, declined to 1.11 by the end of September first week and has since remained under 1.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The good news is that India's R has continued to be less than 1, as is that of Kerala and Maharashtra, the two states having the highest number of active cases," PTI quoted Sitabhra Sinha of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, as saying.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sinha is leading a team of researchers who have been calculating the R-value since the beginning of the pandemic.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to the data shared by them, the R-value of Mumbai is 1.09, Chennai is 1.11, Kolkata is 1.04, and Bengaluru is 1.06 at present.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As far as overall Covid cases are concerned, India has seen a decline in the numbers compared to the last week. As many as 26,115 new Covid cases were recoded in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health Affairs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">At 0.92 per cent of the total tally, active cases are currently lowest since March 2020.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">India has a total of 3,09,575 active cases at present &mdash; lowest in 184 days.</span></p> <p><br /><br /></p>

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