Jamie Mullick
Jamie Mullick works as a chief content producer at Hindustan Times. He uses data and graphics to tell his stories.
Articles by Jamie Mullick
The return of traffic congestion
UPDATED ON JAN 14, 2021 07:48 PM IST
- The firm’s traffic data is powered by 600 million connected devices ranging from cellphone carrier data to vehicular GPS data.
How Covid-19 pandemic hit the states
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 06:00 AM IST
In terms of case fatality ratio (CFR), in Meghalaya, 8.3% of people getting infected were dying — the highest proportion in the country — followed by Madhya Pradesh (5.3%) and Gujarat (5.0%).
Resuming life after Covid-19 lockdown
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 05:33 AM IST
Google publishes Covid-19 Community Mobility Reports for 131 countries to show how the lockdown affected the movement of people.
The rise of data as an antivirus
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 31, 2020 05:33 AM IST
Covid-19 triggered the biggest public data-gathering exercise in history, enabling scientists and data experts to break down, analyse and study how the infection behaved, and to save lives
Covid-19: India’s daily cases, deaths hit lowest level in half a year
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2020 05:17 AM IST
In the past week, India has, on average, reported 299 new Covid-19 deaths a day, and 21,785 new infections daily.
10 million Covid+, but India on recovery road
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2020 07:04 AM IST
India’s first wave of infections peaked in the middle of September with the seven-day average of daily cases touching 93,617. This number has been receding at a rapid pace since, and in the last week has touched 26,851 – a decrease of over 71%.
Number Theory| Covid-19: Why India is on the right track now
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 16, 2020 05:07 AM IST
On Monday, 2.2% of samples tested across India came back positive – the lowest single-day positivity rate reported since April 25 (also 2.2%).
Mount Everest ‘grows’ as China, Nepal agree on new height
By Sutirtho Patranobis and Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, Beijing/New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 09, 2020 06:50 AM IST
Nepal until now had recognised the height of the mountain as 8,848m as measured by the Survey of India in 1954.
Deadliest day ever in US sets alarming trend
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2020 02:46 PM IST
The United States on Wednesday recorded its deadliest day, with more than 2,800 people losing their lives to the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), surpassing the previous record set on April 21.
Why Delhi may be on right track in Covid-19 fight
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON DEC 03, 2020 07:20 AM IST
The third wave of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections in Delhi has started showing clear signs of receding with new cases dropping steadily over the past few weeks.
Covid-19: Deaths, cases breaking global records
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 14, 2020 04:18 AM IST
Over the past week, daily deaths have surpassed the previous peak witnessed in early April.
As Covid-19 pandemic rages, global daily deaths surpass peak levels from April
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 13, 2020 10:57 AM IST
This means that more people are dying from Covid-19 across the world every day now than ever before in the 11 months since the virus was first reported in eastern China’s Wuhan city
This illustrator can make your dreams come true
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON NOV 08, 2020 10:22 PM IST
It’s not his full-time job, but graphic designer Karan Acharya has been wowing fans and going viral by using pictures of people as the basis of fantasy scenes.
Third wave: 6.7k new Covid-19 cases in Delhi
By Jamie Mullick and Anonna Dutt | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 04, 2020 01:10 AM IST
The positivity rate on Tuesday stood at 11.29%, reinforcing the fact that the virus is spreading at an unprecedented rate amid festive season and rising pollution. A rising positivity rate typically suggests that a region is testing inadequately.
Covid-19: Centre, Delhi huddle as third wave gets steeper
By Sweta Goswami, Saubhadra Chatterji, Jamie Mullick and Neeraj Chauhan | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON NOV 03, 2020 01:32 AM IST
Delhi broke its record for the highest number of Covid-19 cases to be added on a weekend, data released on Monday showed, as alarm grows over the scale of the outbreak in the Capital.
Centre, Delhi huddle as third wave gets steeper
By Sweta Goswami, Saubhadra Chatterji, Jamie Mullick and Neeraj Chauhan, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON NOV 03, 2020 12:12 AM IST
Alarm over new Covid-19 cases in Delhi; Centre may step in
By Saubhadra Chatterjee and Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 31, 2020 07:00 AM IST
Worried about the continuous spike in Delhi’s infections during the ongoing festive season, and at the start of winter, the Union home ministry has called a special review meeting with Delhi government officials on Monday.
Covid-19: Third American wave breaking all records
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 31, 2020 06:59 AM IST
Daily cases are at peak levels and rising in 24 states in the US, while seven other states are currently at 90% of their peaks.
Covid-19: Why Delhi needs to ramp up testing again
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 27, 2020 09:02 AM IST
A rising positivity rate typically suggests that a region is testing inadequately. The positivity rate should drop to 5% or below if the testing programme is adequate and is keeping the outbreak in control, according to the World Health Organization.
3rd day of 4k+ cases in Delhi; Positivity rate past 8%
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
PUBLISHED ON OCT 26, 2020 01:30 AM IST
The seven-day average positivity rate is now at 6.84% and has been rising for the 13 consecutive days and is at its highest in nearly a month (it was 6.95% on September 27). This number was 5.88% the week before, and 5.49% the week before that.
US case Covid-19 trajectory surpasses India’s
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 23, 2020 06:09 AM IST
This means that India is no longer the country reporting the most new infections in the world for the first time since August 8, when it overtook the US to become the world’s largest source of daily Covid-19 cases.
Start of the fourth global Covid-19 wave
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 19, 2020 07:29 AM IST
The latest spurt of infections is fuelled by the second wave in most European nations, the third in the United States, and the tail-end of the first wave in India and South America. Here is a look at the countries that are behind the still-rising cases
4 states that are defying dip in India’s Covid-19 cases
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 17, 2020 07:31 AM IST
To analyse the intensity of the outbreak and identify regions that are still displaying characteristics of growing outbreaks, HT analysed data from India’s 20 most populous regions, looking for three factors — a rising positivity rate, a high growth rate of daily cases, and low tests per million residents — that have marked all hot spots regions globally.
Covid-19 tests in Delhi gradually declining again
By Jamie Mullick and Anonna Dutt | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 11, 2020 05:14 AM IST
The proportion of RT-PCR tests, considered the gold standard for Covid-19 diagnosis, however, has remained high despite the dip in overall tests.
India’s first Covid-19 wave finally recedes
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 08, 2020 02:28 AM IST
The first wave of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) appears to be receding for the first time across the country, with cases seeing a steady drop for three consecutive weeks now.
Active Covid-19 cases hit first-ever plateau in India
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 05, 2020 06:48 AM IST
This is the first time since the start of the pandemic that the total number of active cases in the country have seen a sustained decline
How Covid-19 has taken a toll on India’s districts
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 03, 2020 05:06 AM IST
The Covid-19 pandemic started as an urban phenomenon but is now spreading at a faster rate in rural areas.
India’s Covid-19 toll surpasses 100,000
By Jamie Mullick and Rhythma Kaul | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 03, 2020 06:21 AM IST
Yet another grim milestone breached in India as pandemic rages. The country’s fatality rate is significantly lower than global average.
How Covid-19 has gripped India’s urban centres
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times
UPDATED ON OCT 02, 2020 10:24 AM IST
A look at the factors that explain how the coronavirus pandemic has gripped India’s main urban centres
Superspreaders led to 60% Covid-19 cases: Study
By Jamie Mullick | Hindustan Times, New Delhi
UPDATED ON OCT 01, 2020 06:20 AM IST
The contact tracing study, perhaps the largest Covid-19 epidemiological analyses conducted in the world, looked at disease transmission patterns in at least 575,000 people who were exposed to nearly 85,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in two Indian states — Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.