ISSN: 2639-2038
Authors: Bhattacharjee J*
India is passing through Covid 19 pandemic. As on 09 August 2020, there were 2.22 millions of confirmed cases in the country. The present concept paper proposes the use of a composite tool in the name of ‘Covid19 Index’ to monitor the Covid 19 situation at district level. The Covid19 Index was formulated by pooling number of active cases, number of deaths, number of recovered cases, number of Covid tests done and population of the districts. For the purpose of exercise, five districts were selected and Covid19 Index was calculated in those districts on every third day for a continuous period of 43 days from 23 June 2020 to 04 August 2020. The results showed a varied picture among five districts from spectacular improvement of situation in one to very meager improvement and moderate improvement in other districts with or without consistency. It is found that, despite some limitations, this tool can be useful for Epidemiologists to monitor the Covid19 situation in district or any defined administrative area in developing countries.
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