NE NEWS SERVICE
NEW DELHI, AUG 3
The Health Ministry on Tuesday said that the reproductive number, or the R-value, that indicates the extent of Covid-19 spread is more than one in eight states.
If the R-value is lesser than one, it means the number of newly infected people is lower than the number of infected people in the preceding period which means the disease incidence is going down.
Reproduction Number is the average no. of new infections generated by one #COVID19 infected individual during the entire infectious period
Rt for India is 1.2 which means one infected individual infects more than 1 individual on average
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— #IndiaFightsCorona (@COVIDNewsByMIB) August 3, 2021
When the second wave of the COVID-19 infection was at its peak, the overall R-value in the country was estimated to be 1.37 between March 9 and April 21.
For instance, an R-value of 0.95 means, every 100 infected people on an average pass on the infection to 95 other individuals.
The ideal value of R-value in a pandemic must be less than 1, indicating that the spread of infection is decreasing.