Odisha: major operations rose to 11,760 in May 2019, against 8,402 a year earlier (+40%).

Comparing a week or month with the same week or month a year earlier removes ordinary seasonality: monsoon-season fever, the March reporting rush. What remains is change the calendar does not explain.

For major operations, neither a rise nor a fall is better in itself, so the observatory marks this movement as unusual rather than good or bad.

Compared with the same month of 2018, which removes ordinary seasonality.

Full history of major operations in Odisha