Open AccessNature and Magnitude of COVID-19 First Wave in Tamil Nadu, India
Author(s) -
P Devi Priya
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
shanlax international journal of economics (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2582-0192
DOI - 10.34293/economics.v9i4.4162
Subject(s) - tamil , case fatality rate , demography , covid-19 , geography , socioeconomics , personal hygiene , medicine , veterinary medicine , population , sociology , family medicine , philosophy , linguistics , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty)
The first case of COVID-19 Tamil Nadu was confirmed on 7th March 2020 in Chennai after aninternational travel from Muscat. The specific objectives of the study were to analyze the trends inCOVID 19 in Tamil Nadu from March 2020 to January 2021 and examine the pattern of it sex-wiseamong the age groups. The risk of COVID-19 was accessed with the computation of positive testrate, prevalence rate and fatality rate. The prevalence rates were highest in August, with a slightdownfall in September 2020 in the state. The positivity test rate was high in June and July. Then itstarted declining and has been one percent in January. About 83 percent of the occurrence of thevirus was among the middle age group, 13 percent among the elderly and four percent among thechildren. Intensifying immunity boosters, personal and public hygiene, vaccination on a large scaleprobably would contain the second wave and prohibit the third wave for the survival of humanity