Daily positivity rate surges to 22 pc, transmission rate up

Sushil Manav

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 26

The daily positivity rate has surged to over 22 per cent and reproductive number to (R Naught value) 1.36 in Haryana, as the state witnessed 60 per cent increase in weekly cases and double the number of deaths in the last seven days over the preceding week.

Haryana saw 67,348 new cases during the week from April 19 to 25 against 40,090 cases during the week from April 12 to 18, which is more than 60 per cent surge in seven days.

During the same period, deaths due to Covid-19 surged to 352 from 147, an increase of 139 per cent in a week.

Also, 352 mortalities during the past seven days were the highest-ever deaths in seven days in the state ever since the pandemic began in March 2020.

According to the weekly status report of Covid-19 in Haryana compiled by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (ICDP) of the Health and Family Welfare Department, the highest daily positivity rate touched 22.15 per cent during the last week.

During the past seven days, the Health Department collected 3,09,224 samples, of which 67,348 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), making it a weekly positivity rate of 21.77 per cent.

With 32.01 per cent, Faridabad district has the highest positivity rate where the authorities tested 29,820 samples for 9,546 positive cases.

Sonepat 29.42 per cent (18,116 samples for 5,332 cases) is another district with higher positivity rate, while Panchkula, with 2,317 positive cases from 14,766 tests, had a relatively lower positivity rate of 15.69 per cent.

Meanwhile, the transmission rate in the state has also surged from 1.04 in the beginning of April and 1.27 during the week ending April 18 to 1.36 during the week that ended yesterday.

The transmission rate, also referred to as reproductive number, or simply termed as R Naught (R0) value, is an estimate of the total number of healthy persons being infected by an already infected person.

The transmission rate of 1.36 in case of Haryana means that a group of 100 persons will pass on the infection to 138 other healthy persons.

High mortality

A total of 352 mortalities in past seven days were the highest-ever deaths in seven days in the state ever since the pandemic began. The transmission rate of 1.36 in state means that a group of 100 persons will pass on the infection to 138 healthy persons