Analytical Review of COVID-19 Outbreak in India During the Global Pandemic

Analytical Review of COVID-19 Outbreak in India During the Global Pandemic

Amit Ganatra, Parth Goel, Dweepna Garg

COVID-19 is one of the very contagious diseases from the family Coronaviridae and spreading at afaster rate in the community. In December 2019, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan,China. An epidemic outbreak of COVID-19 was seen in India from March 2020. Epidemiological dataof COVID-19 cases of the world and India have been analyzed in our study. We have utilized publiclyavailable two databases from data repository by Johns Hopkins CSSE and covid19india.org. COVID-19cases and case fatality rate (CFR) of the world have been summarized and compared with India fromJanuary 22, 2020 to April 15, 2020. Indian cases were analyzed among states of India and also comparedwith age and gender by performing statistical approaches such as central tendency, standard deviationand interquartile range. By April 15, 2020, Indian has reported 12,322 confirmed cases, 1,498 recoveredcases and 405 death cases of COVID-19. In spite of India being a diverse country with the secondhighest population, the deadly side of COVID-19 was comparatively far less as compared to the othercountries. India has taken preemptive measures at an early stage to prevent transmission of COVID-19outbreak and it is reviewed from our study by comparing India with other countries. Our study alsosummarizes that age also plays a vital role in the intervention of COVID-19 cases.

2020

India, coronavirus, statistical analysis, epidemic, Pandemic, COVID-19

DOI: 10.22207/JPAM.14.SPL1.27

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology

Microbiology