NEW DELHI: India's R-value which indicates the rate of spread of coronavirus has further reduced to 1.57 in the week from January 14-21 and the national peak of the third wave of the infection is expected to come in the next fortnight, according to a preliminary analysis by IIT Madras.
R-value indicates the number of people an infected person can spread the disease to. A pandemic is considered to end if this value goes below 1.
