Latest reports have been coming in from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare where Ministry of Health Joint Secretary Lav Agarwal in a media conference has said that growth rate and active cases are also assessed using Reproduction (R) Number.
According to Joint Secretary Ministry of Health and Family Welfare it is the average number of new infections generated by one infected individual during the entire infectious period as per Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry.
Whenever R number is above one, it means that the case trajectory is increasing and it needs to be controlled according to Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry.
US, Canada, Australia and India have 1.2 R number, on average. This means one infected individual is infecting more than one person. R number is high in 8 states of India according to Lav Agarwal, Joint Secretary, Union Health Ministry.
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