Data sourse: Ministry of health and family welfare and Worldometer

NEW DELHI: Though the number of people getting infected with novel coronavirus is increasing every day in the country, data reveals that India has been able to slow down the spread of the deadly virus when compared to other parts of the world.Two sets of data — one comparing number of cases with number of deaths and the other showing number of days it took for a country to double its cases — make it evident that the Covid-19 virus in India is not spreading as rapidly as it is in some parts of the world.The coronavirus cases in India doubled from 16,000 to 32,000 in 10 days. The rate of doubling was slightly higher on the previous occasion when number of cases jumped from 8,000 to 16,000 in 8 days.In most of the countries, barring Canada, the rate of doubling has remained below five days. In the US, the worst affected country with over a million cases, it took a mere two days for cases to double from 16,000 to 32,000. In Italy, it took five days, in Spain four days and in the UK it took five days for the cases to go from 16,000 to 32,000.Canada has shown remarkable progress stalling the spread of the virus. In the North American nation, it took six days for cases to double from 8,000 to 16,000; it took another 12 days for cases to reach 32,000 from 16,000.The second set of data reflects on the mortality rate. In India, the mortality rate has been considerably lower when compared to other countries. The country had 31,332 coronavirus cases when the death toll crossed the 1,000-mark.In other countries, the death toll touched 1,000 much earlier — in France it took 22,304 cases, in Italy it took 15,115 cases, in Spain it took 21,571 cases, while in Belgium the number of cases was 15,348.As per the latest report of the ministry of health and family welfare, there 33,050 cases in India with 1,074 deaths. A total of 8,324 people have been cured, leaving 23,651 active cases.