India’s effective ‘r’ value, or the rate at which the coronavirus is spreading, has gone above the danger level of 1.0 for the first time in three months, a researcher from Chennai’s Institute of Mathematical Sciences told news agency PTI. It was 1.07 for the period April 12-18 – up from 0.93 for April 5-11. The number has been increasing steadily, the researcher, Sitabhra Sinha told PTI. The last time the ‘r’ value was above 1.0 was between January 16-22 – when India was reaching the peak of the third wave of infections and there were over 2 lakh […]
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