Every third family in Delhi has at least one Covid case now

In Delhi, with an estimated population of 1.87 crore, one out of every 13 residents has been infected by Covid since the beginning of the pandemic.

How do you gauge the extent of the spread of Covid-19? By cumulative cases, daily infections and deaths or by hospitalisations? All of them give us a sense of how the pandemic has unfolded thus far. However, the proportion of the population getting infected is perhaps a better metric. Calculations done by India Today Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) show that one out of every 13 residents of Delhi has been infected so far since the Covid outbreak. It is likely that a few among them may have got infected more than once. But the number reveals the distress among residents of the capital for over a year. Here is how we did the numbers. Delhi's cumulative case count as of May 17 was 13.93 lakh. The capital's projected population in 2020, according to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), was 1.87 crore. We divided the total population by the number of cases so far, which comes to a little over 13.