Table 1.

Under-detection of Tuberculosis in India during COVID-19 pandemic response related lockdown - eight week lockdown period 25 March to 19 May 2020 compared with eight week pre-lockdown period 29 January to 24 March 2020∗.³⁹

State (in alphabetical order)	Notifications (n)		Case detection (%) (c = b/a)	Under-detection (%) (d = 100 – c)
	Pre-lockdown (a)	During lockdown (b)
Andaman & Nicobar Islands	101	23	23	77
Andhra Pradesh	15,194	4658	31	69
Arunachal Pradesh	478	349	73	27
Assam	7533	3799	50	50
Bihar	19,654	5374	27	73
Chandigarh	1008	405	40	60
Chhattisgarh	6655	3966	60	40
Daman & Diu	213	137	64	36
Delhi	17,973	8390	47	53
Goa	322	234	73	27
Gujarat	26,897	10,646	40	60
Haryana	12,424	7492	60	40
Himachal Pradesh	2757	1695	61	39
Jammu & Kashmir	2009	905	45	55
Jharkhand	8616	3767	44	56
Karnataka	14,468	6960	48	52
Kerala	4045	2575	64	36
Ladakh	33	40	121	−21
Lakshadweep	2	2	100	0
Madhya Pradesh	29,101	10,616	36	64
Maharashtra	32,717	14,447	44	56
Manipur	305	137	45	55
Meghalaya	800	474	59	41
Mizoram	425	318	75	25
Nagaland	649	360	55	45
Odisha	8701	6197	71	29
Puducherry	745	254	34	66
Punjab	9852	5144	52	48
Rajasthan	26,418	11,462	43	57
Sikkim	284	219	77	23
Tamil Nadu	17,025	5466	32	68
Telangana	12,985	6221	48	52
Tripura	451	227	50	50
Uttar Pradesh	77,887	20,692	27	73
Uttarakhand	4200	2373	57	44
West Bengal	17,098	8261	48	52
Total	380,025	154,285	41	59∗∗

∗notification data extracted on 11 June 2020 from the NIKSHAY website ³⁹; ∗∗when compared with previous year (25 March to 19 May 2019), the national under-detection was 62%.