Thoughts In A Wandering Mind

                The covid-19 in the country is dormant for a while. The 7 day moving average of cases lies at 29 thousand. This saw a very slight reduction of one thousand over the previous week. As mentioned earlier, the count of cases are hovering up and down this narrow channel since some time. The curve is flattened since almost three months and this gives a good chance to ramp it down. The active cases in the country stand at 3 lakhs and reducing by nearly 40 thousand each week since last 2 weeks. It is surprisingly overwhelming to note Kerala is contributing more than 60% to the tally over the past few months with regards to number of daily infections and holds more than 50% of active cases. One can find it hard in how to read this imbalance in the spread of the pandemic. ‘Why me’ asks this southern state and everyone else who tries to understand the nature of the pandemic. Except 4 states, the pandemic is more ...

                   To take a look at the covid-19 in the country, the cases are progressing along a linear line with very few deviations, since the past many weeks. The 7-day average of the cases is once again in the zone with 35 thousand which is 3 thousand less than earlier week. The active cases have also fallen from 4.1 lakh to 3.84 lakh and remained at this small range for long. The daily infections, weekly average, active cases etc. are oscillating up and down slightly within a narrow range which is negligible and in turn giving a linear shape to covid-19 progress in the country. This has been like this for the last 80 days and could have vastly improved over time if not for 1 or 2 states.                    After linear progression for nearly the past 3 months, the shape which the pandemic will tak...

                 The covid-19 cases in the country have returned to rise from the past 2 weeks. This week as well, there is a rise in the number of seven-day average cases from 38 thousand to 42 thousand. The number of active cases in the country also saw a rise from 3.68 lakh last week to 4.1 lakh, a 40 thousand increase in one week. Out of the 36 states and UTs, 31 are registering a mere three and two digit cases whereas the remaining 5 are posing problems. Even less, two states are accounting for 80% of cases and just one state is logging 70% of cases. These 5-6 states which are accounting for 91% of the cases in the country are Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Mizoram – 5 from the South and one from North East. The sister states of South are going hand-in-hand in registering new infections. This trend is continuing since long and needs to be curtailed sooner than later.  ...