India's Young Hit The Hardest

60% of cases under50 yrs; women less infected than men

- Dipu Rai

Severe acute respiratory syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS CoV-2), the virus behind COVID-19 disease previously known as 2019 novel Coronavirus, so far has infected mostly the working-age population in India, the data of 1,801 confirmed cases accessed by India Today's Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) reveals.

Young Indians are at higher risk of contracting the disease as about 60 per cent of the patients are under the age of 50.

Data show that 391 confirmed cases, or 22 per cent, are those between the ages of 30 and 39, followed by 376 patients (21 per cent), who are in their 20s while 17 per cent are in their 40s.

Early reports from other countries, such as China and Italy, have shown that the most vulnerable category is that of older people.