PriMera Scientific Medicine and Public Health (ISSN: 2833-5627)

Research Article

Volume 5 Issue 2

Analysis of Covid 19 Situations in Tumkur District of Karnatak

Tejaswini BS*

July 29, 2024

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Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei, China, and has resulted in an ongoing pandemic. As of September 25, 2020, more than 32.1 million cases have been reported across 188 countries and territories, with more than 981,000 deaths; more than 22.1 million people have recovered. The data was obtained from the media bulletin released by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Department, Karnataka. The study included total cases of 13168; in that total discharges were 9438, and deaths were 235; the prevalence of attack rate in the month of September was 260 per lakh population; in the previous month of April it was less than 1 per lakh population; the case fatality rate in April rose to 40; in May it was zero; in September it became 1.14; the recovery rate in April was less than 20; in September it was 76.

Keywords: Case fatality rate (CFR); Recovery rate (RR); complete case fatality rate (CCFR); Attack rate (AR)

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