COVID Cases: Kochi best , Nagpur 2nd in Next 10 Cities

Today we look at COVID cases in the 10 cities outside the big metros. At the moment, all of them have less than 3000 cases per million population. Delhi for example had 7365 cases per million. Let us look at their performance in terms of number of cases, testing fatalities

How have each of these Cities performed on COVID Cases per Million?

  1. Kochi -795 (379 cases per million)
  2. Kanpur – 1114 (403 cases per million)
  3. Nagpur – 1090 (453 cases per million)
  4. Ghaziabad – 1306 (792 cases per million)
  5. Indore – 1568 (800 cases per million)
  6. Lucknow – 2719 (971 cases per million)
  7. Coimbatore-1260 (1200 cases per million)
  8. Visakhapatnam – 2200 (1279 cases per million)
  9. Jaipur – 4405 (1449 cases per million)
  10. Patna – 3894 (2318 cases per million)

Note: City level data is actually district level data as produced by covidindia.org. Some cities which form a smaller part of their district may suffer more.

How have these Cities performing on Testing?

  1. Indore – 122000 (62000 tests per million)
  2. Visakhapatnam – 93600 (54000 tests per million)
  3. Jaipur – 152000 (50000 tests per million)
  4. Ghaziabad – 75100 (45000 cases per million)
  5. Coimbatore-33500 (32000 tests per million)
  6. Lucknow – 71200 (25000 tests per million)
  7. Nagpur – 46000 (19000 tests per million)
  8. Kochi -Data Not Available
  9. Kanpur – Data Not Available
  10. Patna – Data Not Available

When one combines testing data, we have no information on the Top two cities with the lowest cases per million. Indore which was 5th on cases per million is number 1 on testing per million, Visakhapatnam which was 8th on cases per million is second on testing and Jaipur which is 9th on cases per million is 3rd on testing.

How have these Cities performing on Deaths per Million?

  1. Kochi -5 (2 deaths per million)
  2. Nagpur – 31 (13 deaths per million)
  3. Patna – 28 (17 deaths per million)
  4. Lucknow – 52 (19 deaths per million)
  5. Coimbatore-22 (21 deaths per million)
  6. Visakhapatnam – 42 (24 deaths per million)
  7. Kanpur – 130 (47 deaths per million)
  8. Ghaziabad – 63 (38 deaths per million)
  9. Jaipur – 179 (59 deaths per million)
  10. Indore – 295 (151 deaths per million)

Overall Performance Ranks

  1. Kochi
  2. Nagpur
  3. Ghaziabad
  4. Indore
  5. Lucknow
  6. Coimbatore
  7. Vizag
  8. Kanpur
  9. Jaipur
  10. Patna

It is a bit ironical that Maharashtra which has Mumbai, Pune and Thane (3 of the worst affected cities in India) also has Nagpur which seems to be doing quite well when it comes to managing COVID Cases.

Unlike rest of Maharashtra, Nagpur has performed well on COVID cases

PC: Mathrubhumi

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