Chandigarh: When covid cases in other parts of the country have begun to fall, experts have warned of the abundance of infections in the region in the coming weeks after maintaining a downward trend, Chandigarh and Haryana joined Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in the list of seven states in the country of Everyday case picks steps and is expected to increase.
At the national level, the growth rate has been in the last 14 days, encouraging effective reproduction (R value) for India to 0.95.
Contrary to the national trend, the level of Chandigarh infection touched 1.31 on August 15, the highest in this country, according to the calculation carried out by Cambridge Judge Business School and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, working with a health system transformation platform in India.
Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, on the other hand, recorded a decrease in value from 1.30 to 1.08 while the infection rate remained stagnant at 1 in Haryana.
For a pandemic end, the R value needs to stay under one for a long time.
Taking a geographical closeness of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh considered, in the latest report, this group has underlined the importance of implementing a policy to contain the ‘spatial spaces’ infection in the region.
Data analysis The two waves made it proved that the state and UT had recorded an increase and decrease in the level of infection together, indicating that every infection event that occurred in one part of the region quickly spread to another.
Cases have grown in Chandigarh since August 8 when the growth rate recorded 2.2% which touched 18% on August 13.
The growth rate remains more than 10% for five days in the past week.
If UT continues to register new cases at this level, Caseload is expected to multiply in 11 days.
In the last two weeks, The Hill State of Himachal recorded a positive growth of cases – ranging from 1.8% and 7.5% – in the days while Punjab recorded growth in nine days of cases between 1% and 7.7%.
In Haryana, positive growth (0.1%) was only registered on one day for a period of 14 days.
It will take 39 days to double the case in Punjab and Himachal and 693 days in Haryana.
The virus has infected 16,42,322 people in the region while 30,343 died from the beginning of the pandemic.