New Delhi: The central government on Friday said the national doubling rate of the coronavirus infections now stands at six days on average as compared to the three days before the nationwide lockdown was imposed to prevent the virus's spread.
Addressing a daily briefing here, Ministry of Health Joint Secretary Lav Agrawal said that the doubling rate, which means in how many days the number of cases gets doubled in the country, has reduced. "Our doubling rate of the number of cases is 6.2 days. The analysis is based on data of the last seven days. It was three days before the lockdown. It is a product of how we are managing situations at field level. This is an ongoing process. We need to intensify our vigil to reduce the doubling rate even more," he said.
India has reported 1,007 new COVID-19 cases and 23 deaths in the last 24 hours and Agarwal said the ratio between recovered patients and deaths stands at 80:20 in India, which is higher than that in several other nations, and that 13.6% people have recovered so far.
"At least 1,749 people recovered so far which is 13.6% as on today," he said.
"We have been witnessing average growth factor at 1.2 since April 1, which stood at 2.1 (average) between March 15-31," he said. "Hence, there is 40% decline in average growth factor even as we increased testings."
Agarwal said the ministry has analysed the data of cases of novel coronavirus in the country in many ways. It has been found that the rate of recovery of the patient is higher than that of the deceased.
Agarwal said there are at least 19 states and Union Territories where the doubling rate is less than the national average. These are Kerala, Uttarakhand, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh, Puducherry, Bihar, Odisha, Telangana, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab Assam and Tripura.
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