Covid-19: Doubling time worsens to 11 days as active cases spurt

NEW DELHI: The number of active Ravi tweets daily updates on her statistical analysis, which are widely followed on social media and her slides have on occasions been used by the government as well. The trend is driven by rising concerns regarding states like Pointing to varying rates of testing, Shamika said in Kerala’s Kasargod district when 100 people came out positive, 20,000 samples were tested while in Mumbai 6,000 samples were tested against 100 positive cases. According to her, there is a big second wave in several states with growing concerns in Gujarat, Delhi and Tamil Nadu, along with Maharashtra where the case load is alarmingly high. “It is a combination of containment, contact-tracing and testing that will help flatten the curve. If containment and contact-tracing is poor, active cases will keep rising. States have to formulate a strategy and ensure it is strictly implemented,” she said. So far, the government has said the doubling rate is rising with the figures taken for all cases and not only active ones as in Ravi’s analysis. “Maharashtra is failing very badly and I am afraid that it will impact the national average,” Ravi said, underlining that states will have to focus… Read full this story

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