While the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be easing across the state, it is doing so at wildly different rates.
The average number of new cases (on a seven-day basis) is now 18 percent higher in the 10 districts of Meghalaya apart from East Khasi Hills (EKH). Today 204 new coronavirus infections were recorded in EKH and 293 in the other 10 districts combined. The seven-day average, which smooths out the curve, is 248 and 292 respectively.
On May 1, EKH had an average figure more than twice as high as that of the Rest of Meghalaya (ROM) put together. The curve in EKH peaked on May 24 when the seven-day average hit 540, which was 1.37 times ROM’s figure. ROM then peaked on May 26 with 431.
Since then, the average number of new infections per day has dropped in EKH by 54 percent but only by 32 percent in ROM.
This mirrors what was seen in November, after the peak of the first wave, when numbers dropped faster in East Khasi Hills compared to the rest of the state.
