Table 2 Characteristics of a sampled dataset.

From: Tracing the COVID-19 spread pattern in India through a GIS-based spatio-temporal analysis of interconnected clusters

Year

Number of tests

Number of positive cases

Number of negative cases

Positive to test ratio

Unique positive patients

Unique cases (%)

Rejected samples

2020

392,950

45,144

337,605

0.15

39,597

87

10,201

2021

643,116

28,666

609,041

0.04

28,414

99.12

5409

2022

697,756

18,067

674,864

0.03

18,014

99.70

4825