The "R-value", indicating the spread of Kovid-19 in Delhi, was recorded at 2.1 this week.

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According to an analysis conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), the "R-Value" of Delhi was recorded at 2.1 this week.

This indicates the spread of Kovid-19.

This means that each person infected with the corona virus in the national capital is infecting two other people.

"R" means the reproductive value indicates how many other individuals can be infected by one infected individual.

If it goes below one, it is considered to be the end of the epidemic. 

The initial analysis by computational modeling was carried out by the Department of Mathematics and Center of Excellence for Computational Mathematics and Data Science, IIT-Madras, chaired by Professor Nilesh S Upadhyay and Professor S Sundar.

According to information given to "PTI-Bhasha", Delhi's "R-value" was recorded at 2.1 this week.

The analysis found that India's "R-value" is currently 1.3. 

More than one thousand corona cases again in Delhi, positivity rate reached 4.64 percent

When asked whether it can be inferred that this is the beginning of a possible fourth wave of Kovid-19 in Delhi.

On this, Dr Jayant Jha, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, IIT-Madras said that it is too early to announce the start of another wave.

He told "PTI-Bhasha" that "we can only say for now that each person is affecting two other people, but we need to wait a bit to announce the start of the wave."

We don't know the immunity status of the people right now and we don't even know whether those who were affected during the third wave in January are getting affected again or not.

Covid-19 Updates: Corona cases increasing continuously in India, 2,527 new cases registered in last 24 hours

Significantly, Delhi is witnessing an increase in the number of cases of Kovid-19.

On Friday, 1,042 new Kovid cases were registered in the city with an infection rate of 4.64 percent.

Sources said on Thursday that Omicron's subtype BA.2.12 has been detected in most of the samples taken from Delhi in the first fortnight of April and this is the reason behind the recent spurt in COVID-19 cases in the city. Maybe. 

An official source said that "the new subtypes BA.2.12 (52 per cent samples) and BA.2.10 (11 per cent samples) are showing high transmission and in more than 60 per cent of the total samples sequenced from Delhi recently." have been found."

Booster dose is avoided in Maharashtra, no one below 60 years has taken third dose in 18 districts.