ASSESSMENT OF COMPARABILITY INDEX OF COVID-19 CASES: A STUDY OF URBAN AREAS OF INDIA

Abstract

India is one of the worst hit countries from SARS-COV-2 since its inception. There have been two major COVID-19 waves that India has faced, one in the mid of 2020 and the other in the beginning of 2021. Although the second wave was much worse than the first as it had high transmissibility rate and mortality rate. In this paper a comparative analysis is done for COVID-19 cases in the urban areas of India. These urban cities have gaps when it comes to economic level and urban development. Using the Comparability Index (CI), the study found a correlation between the selected variables namely Population Density, Economic level, Housing occupancy and the number of COVID-19 cases in each city for both the COVID-19 waves