Has the Third Covid Wave Already Hit India? Here's What Data Suggests
News 18World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said this week that the world was in early stages of a third Covid-19 wave. The week that ended on June 24 saw a drop of 23.26% in the active Covid-19 caseload burden that got further reduced to 16.84% in the week ended on July 1, 10% in the week ended on July 8 and 6.17% in the last week ended on July 15 with India’s current active caseload burden at 4,30,422 cases. On the rise in the number of active case, with R-value of 1.10, Kerala currently shares 27.74% burden of active Covid cases in India and 35% of the fresh caseload burden while the daily test positivity ratio of the state is also 10.95%, much higher than India’s daily positivity rate of 1.99%. Karnataka saw its cumulative case burden increase by 1.1% between July 1-15 and by 2.52% between June 15-30 with its current cumulative caseload burden at 28,78,564 cases and 32,406 active cases. Manipur that carried 8,558 active cases on July 15 saw active caseload burden going up by 44% between July 1 and July 15; Mizoram with 5,612 active cases saw a fortnightly increase of 42%; Tripura with 4,863 active cases saw it went up by 27%; Arunachal Pradesh with 4,177 active cases saw it going up by 51%; and Sikkim with 2,322 active case saw it increased by 10%.