COVID-19: Tamil Nadu outlier but on an average, 69% cases in each state from just 3 districts

Saturday, 18 April 2020Newsdesk

In India, more than three weeks into the national lockdown, an average of 69 per cent almost seven of 10 of all active Covid cases in a state are concentrated in just three of its districts, an analysis shows.

New Delhi, 18 April 2020

As per news report of Indian Express, this trend holds pointers to not only working out the easing of the lockdown post-April 20, it is key to designing public health interventions to contain the outbreak. This case load pattern reflects in recovery and death as well.

Nationally, when it comes to recovered patients, more than half (55.55 per cent) come from these three districts in a state; also, an average 63.9 per cent of deaths, too, are from here. This statewise concentration in three districts is significant as the government identified 170 districts in 25 states as hotspots.

Source -Indian Express