New Delhi, May 20 -- A comprehensive data analysis of the Covid-19 testing pattern places national Capital Delhi at the top in terms of number of test carried out per million population followed by Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

The worst performer States are Bihar, Telangana and Uttar Pradesh in that order. Interestingly, West Bengal, which drew repeated criticism from the Centre for its alleged inept handling of the outbreak, is ahead of several other States in carrying out Covid-19 identification tests.

The data crunching also reveals while some States have taken the testing protocol very seriously, others have paid little heed to it. As a result, as much as 18-fold gap exists between Delhi and Bihar and six-fold difference between A...