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COVID-19 in India

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Introduction to COVID-19

A novel Corona virus is a category of pathogens, which mostly attacks on the respiratory system of human beings. Corona virus outbreaks are emerging earlier also in the form of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).Now, in the present times, it emerges as a COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS2 Coronavirus and poses a significant risk to the human race.

In December 2019, a number of patients with pneumonia symptoms were reported in Wuhan and Hubei Province of China and later identified as symptoms caused due to the spread of corona virus. Epidemiologically, these patients were later on found to be linked to an animal and seafood market of Wuhan. Later on, the Wuhan city of China was recognized as the epicentre of the COVID-19 disease and claimed for spreading the disease across the world. Around 41 lab confirmed COVID-19 patients reported and admitted to hospital up to January 2, 2020 in China. These patients have symptoms of coughing, sneezing, breathing problems, chest pain, indigestion, and respiratory illness. It was also observed that most of these patients are already suffering from varied diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular.

According to China National Health Commission, 17 deaths reported in China with COVID-19 up to January 22, 2020 and within four days death rate raised to triple with 5502 confirmed cases. By the end of January 2020, 7734 confirmed cases have been reported in China along with 90 cases in other countries such as Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, Iran, Italy, India, USA, Canada, Taiwan, Vietnam, France, Nepal, Cambodia, Germany, Singapore, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Australia and Finland.

Furthermore, WHO on 30 Jan declares Public health emergency of international concern due to the severity of the disease. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named this corona virus as a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease caused by the virus designated as Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) by WHO. The COVID-19 has strewed in more than 114 countries with 118,326 active cases and 4292 deaths on March 11, 2020 and declared as pandemic by WHO. The situation becomes worse within a week after the pandemic declaration and Italy become the second most affected country after china.

Presently, about 216 countries are affected by COVID-19 across the globe and shattered the economic growth of developed as well as developing countries. The WHO report documented on 05 October 2020 claimed 7,637,066 cases United States of America, 6,626,291 cases in India, 4,915,289 in Brazil, 1,225,889 in Russia, 855,052 cases in Colombia, much higher cases in comparison to China from where the disease actually originated (85,470)

How it started in India?

The first COVID-19 case was reported on 30th January 2020 when a student arrived Kerala from Wuhan. Just in next 2 days, Kerela reported 2 more cases. For almost a month, no new cases were reported in India, however, on 2nd March 2020, five new cases of corona virus were reported in Kerala again and since then the cases have been rising affecting 25 states.

Corona Virus Explained in Simple Terms:

  • Let's say Raj got infected yesterday, but he won't know it untill next 14 days
  • Raj thinks he is healthy but he is infecting 10 persons per day
  • Now these 10 persons think they are completely healthy, they travel, go out and infect 100 others
  • These 100 persons think they are healthy but they have already infected 1000 persons
  • No one knows who is healthy or who can infect you
  • All you can do is be responsible, stay in quarentine

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How to run the code

This is an executable Jupyter notebook hosted on Jovian.ml, a platform for sharing data science projects. You can run and experiment with the code in a couple of ways: using free online resources (recommended) or on your own computer.

Option 1: Running using free online resources (1-click, recommended)

The easiest way to start executing this notebook is to click the "Run" button at the top of this page, and select "Run on Binder". This will run the notebook on mybinder.org, a free online service for running Jupyter notebooks. You can also select "Run on Colab" or "Run on Kaggle".

Option 2: Running on your computer locally
  1. Install Conda by following these instructions. Add Conda binaries to your system PATH, so you can use the conda command on your terminal.

  2. Create a Conda environment and install the required libraries by running these commands on the terminal:

conda create -n zerotopandas -y python=3.8 
conda activate zerotopandas
pip install jovian jupyter numpy pandas matplotlib seaborn opendatasets --upgrade
  1. Press the "Clone" button above to copy the command for downloading the notebook, and run it on the terminal. This will create a new directory and download the notebook. The command will look something like this:
jovian clone notebook-owner/notebook-id
  1. Enter the newly created directory using cd directory-name and start the Jupyter notebook.
jupyter notebook

You can now access Jupyter's web interface by clicking the link that shows up on the terminal or by visiting http://localhost:8888 on your browser. Click on the notebook file (it has a .ipynb extension) to open it.

Downloading the Dataset