BENGALURU: As India continues to report more cases each day with at least 50% of the country’s districts now having turned Covid-19-positive, analysis of state-wise data as on April 12 (morning) shows that seven big states with more than 10 cases per million have pushed up the national average to 6.5 per million, which is higher than the overall global average.By the night, India’s average was a little over seven cases per million people with more than 9,000 positive cases.Among the 20 big states with more than a crore people, only eight states (as of April 12 morning) have a manageable less than four cases per million people, while 35% of these have more than 10 cases per million — as high as 64/million in Delhi.And among these seven states, Jammu and Kashmir has recorded the highest rate after Delhi with more than 16 per million, followed by Maharashtra (15.6/million) and Telangana (15/million).Tamil Nadu has over 13 cases per million, while Kerala and Rajasthan have more than 10 but less than 14 cases/million.These states — which make up for 19% of the 36 states & UTs in India — have accounted for more than 63% of all Covid-19 deaths (273). However, this is largely due to a large number of cases in Maharashtra, which alone had 47% of total deaths as of April 12 morning.Experts tracking the pandemic point to the increasing spread among districts, many of which lack basic healthcare facilities and medical professionals as one of the key reasons for high numbers in many states and high population density and cluster spreading in case of big cities like Delhi or Mumbai.States like Punjab , Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh that have more than four but under eight cases per million people.Among the states that have less than four cases per million people — which is closer to the total global average of about 3 per million — Bihar has the best rate with less than one person (0.6) per million on average having tested positive so far, while it is similar in Assam (0.9) and Chhattisgarh (0.7).50% Districts PositiveFurther, as various state governments add newer areas to their containment zones list, latest district-wise data accessed from the ministry of health shows that from 284 or 40% of the total number of districts in India as on April 7, 354 or 50% of the districts have reported positive cases as on April 11.The increase of 10% is in line with the previous increment, when the number of Covid-hit districts had increased from 30% (211 districts) as on April 3.However, experts making projection models say that a lot more than 50% of the districts could already be affected given that the latest ministry data accounts for only 6,761 cases while the total number was more than 9,000 as of Sunday night.Among states with more than 20 districts that TOI analysed on April 7, Tamil Nadu had 73% of its districts affected, while the numbers for Maharashtra and Karnataka stood at 55% and 57%, respectively. Fifty-five per cent of Haryana’s districts were Covid-hit, while it was 50% in J&K, 39% in Gujarat, 41% in Punjab, 70% in Telangana and 48% in West Bengal Several other states like Uttar Pradesh, which had 36% of its districts affected, or Rajasthan with 55% had also seen an increase.As per analysis of the April 11 data from the ministry, Tamil Nadu’s number stood at 97%, while it was 75% and 63% for Maharashtra and Karnataka. In J&K, West Bengal, Telangana, Rajasthan, they were 60%, 48%, 81%, 73%, respectively, many other states like UP, Gujarat and Haryana too reported a jump in the number of districts hit by Covid-19.