#THREAD: India is talking about the recent spurt in #coronavirus cases, but how sharp has it been?

Data from day to day, plotted in these graphs, show how and when the growth changed from occasional to a trickle to exponential.
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The number of cases came in trickles, but the growth of numbers in India has begun to prominently resemble what is so characteristic of the spread of an infectious disease — an exponential curve.

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If we ignore the first 3 cases in Kerala, it took India 13 days to cross the 100 mark.

Over the next 14 days, India had more than 1,000 cases.

In another nine days, the numbers had crossed the 5,000 mark.

At this rate, India is on route to touch 10,000 cases in about a week
The growth has been different in different states.

While #Maharashtra, #Telangana, #Delhi, #TamilNadu and #UttarPradesh have been seeing an exponential rate of growth, many other states are adding numbers in linear fashion.

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#Coronavirus curve in India: The deaths in other states.

The R0, or reproduction numbers representing how many people one positive case can infect, in the graphs are as calculated by IIIT Delhi researchers.

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#Coronavirus curve in India: #Maharashtra, #TamilNadu and #Delhi account for the highest cases in India.

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Coronavirus curve in India: Telangana has seen 393 cases, Rajasthan 343 and Kerala 336.
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#Coronavirus curve in India: #Punjab and #WestBengal had 99 cases as of April 7, while #JammuAndKashmir had 125.

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#Coronavirus curve in India: #Haryana cases were at 129, #Gujarat at 176 and #Karnataka at 175.

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#Coronavirus curve in India: There are 332 cases in #UttarPradesh, 304 in #AndhraPradesh and 290 in #MadhyaPradesh.

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#Coronavirus curve in India: #Assam, #Uttarakhand and #Bihar have seen less than 50 #COVID19 cases.

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