Just 1.2% dip in weekly Covid cases as Kerala numbers surge

NEW DELHI: India recorded the smallest drop in weekly Covid-19 infections since the peak of the second wave as the case count in the current week (July 19-25) fell by just around 1.2% as compared with the previous seven days.
The country recorded over 2.7 lakh new cases in the week at a daily average of around 38,000, marginally less than the 38,548 recorded during July 12-18. In the previous two weeks, Covid cases had seen a fall of 6.5% and 5.5%, respectively. The main factor behind the plateauing of positive cases in the country was the accelerating numbers being reported from Kerala, and to a lesser degree, from the northeast.
Kerala recorded 1,10,593 fresh cases in the last seven days, registering a sharp 15.7% surge over the previous week. This was also the first time in seven weeks that any state in the country had reported over 1 lakh fresh cases in a week ending Sunday. Kerala accounted for over 41% of all cases in the country in the current week.
Meanwhile, there was finally some positive news coming from Maharashtra, where cases had been falling at a snail’s pace for the past four weeks. This week, the state recorded its sharpest drop in infections in five weeks, with cases falling by 10%. The country recorded 6,848 deaths during the wee.