Epidemiology, Structure and Disease Burden of SARS-CoV-2 in Different States of India Using SWOT Analysis

Original Research Article The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Most of the people infected with the COVID-19 experienced mild to moderate illness, fever, shortness of breath and recovered without requiring special treatment. Old age peoples and those with underlying medical problems like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and cancer are more likely to develop serious illness. The case fatality rate (CFR) was lower than that of SARS or MERS, the scale of the COVID-19 contagion has caused more casualties than them. The epidemiological data was obtained from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India, Wikipedia, and ICMR as well as different COVID-19 state portals using SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats). The countries with the highest deaths were seen in the USA (1.007%), followed by France (0.95%), Brazil (0.89%), Russia (0.36%), and India (0.106%). India was listed among deaths per million and the reason was, the average population of Indian is young with 94,61,901 cases, 88,47,600 recovered, 1,37,582 deaths and national recovery rate was highest ie. 93.81%. The total CFR declined to 1.45%, and 4,46,952, total active cases in the country which was 4.74% of the total caseload. Among different states of India, the Maharashtra was listed as first with 16, 60,766 cases, 14,86,926 recovered and 43,554 deaths. Next states were: Karnataka; 9,12,340 cases and 12,038 deaths, Tamil Nadu: 8,10,080 cases and 12,024 deaths, Delhi; 6,19,618 cases and 10,337 deaths, Uttar Pradesh; 5,77,642 cases and 8245 deaths as on 30 th November 2020.