R-value Subject – Science and Tech Context – R-value over 1 in big cities, likely start of third wave Concept – The reproduction number or R is an indicator of how quickly a disease is spreading in the population. An R-value of 1, which signifies that every infected person is passing on the […]

    R VALUE Subject: Science & tech Context: At 0.98, India’s R value drops below 1 for the first time during second Covid wave. Concept: R0 or reproduction number tells you the average number of people who will contract a contagious disease from one person with that disease R-naught is a frequently used mathematical […]

Subject: Science and tech Context: Reproduction number(R) has fallen below 1 for the first time since the pandemic began in India in the first week of March and for the sixth consecutive day number of people recovering from the disease, as reported in government data, exceeded the detection of new infections. Concept: R-value is a measure of the number […]

Subject: Science and tech Context: R value has fallen below 1 in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, for the first time since the novel Coronavirus outbreak began in India in March Concept: R0 or reproduction number tells you the average number of people who will contract a contagious disease from one person with that disease R-naught is […]