District level correlates of COVID-19 pandemic in India during March-October 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 is affecting the entire population of India. Understanding district level correlates of the COVID-19's infection ratio (IR) is essential for formulating policies and interventions.

Objective

The present study aims to investigate the district level variation in COVID-19 during March-October 2020. The present study also examines the association between India's socioeconomic and demographic characteristics and the COVID-19 infection ratio at the district level.

Data and methods

We used publicly available crowdsourced district-level data on COVID-19 from March 14, 2020, to October 31, 2020. We identified hotspot and cold spot districts for COVID-19 cases and infection ratio. We have also carried out two sets of regression analysis to highlight the dist

SUBMITTER: Tamrakar V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483309 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature