COVID-19 Metrics across Parliamentary Constituencies and Districts in India

Abstract:

In India, Parliamentary Constituencies (PCs) could serve as a regional unit of COVID-19 monitoring that facilitates evidence-based policy decisions. In this study, we presented the first estimates of COVID-19 cumulative cases and deaths per 100,000 population, and the case fatality rate (CFR) between January 7th, 2020 and October 18th, 2020 across 543 PCs and 721 districts of India. We adopted a novel geographic information science-based methodology called crosswalk to estimate COVID-19 outcomes at the PC-level from district-level information. We found a substantial variation of COVID-19 burden within each state and across the country. Access to PC-level and district-level COVID-19 information can enhance both central and regional governmental accountability of safe reopening policies.

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Last updated on 05/07/2021