# Starting with some developments from China – on Covid-19, Delta and a hard lockdown. It’s been just over a month, and China has once again squelched Covid-19, bringing its local cases down to zero.
It was more difficult this time, even though the leaders of the world’s most populous nation used the same playbook they followed to quell more than 30 previous flare-ups. The arrival of the more infectious delta variant has raised the stakes, as the pathogen refines its ability to escape curbs and flout vaccination. It’s unclear how long the victory will last.
China hits zero Covid cases with a month of draconian curbs
# Meanwhile, India’s graph hovers at the same level. The country reported 30,948 new cases on Sunday, with 403 deaths in the last 24 hours till 8 am.
Covid-19: India reports 30,948 new cases on Sunday
# From the States, test positivity rate (TPR) in Kerala relented on Sunday to 16.41 per cent after the two previous days saw the matric hovering well above 17 per cent. The daily new Covid cases slumped to 10,402 apparently due to Onam festival-induced sluggishness in collections of samples and sent for testing at 63,406.