Fresh Covid cases in India registered a drop in the week ending Sunday. The fall, however, is likely to be just around 4% as compared to the previous week, with several states, including Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and the hill states of northwest India continuing to report a rise in numbers. Stay with TOI for all updates --Read Less
The seven-day positivity rate has continued to rise. It stood at 4.97% on Saturday, up from 4.48% seven days ago, mainly on account of a fall in testing.
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India was likely to record around 1.31 lakh fresh cases in the current week (July 25-31) as compared to over 1.36 lakh in the preceding seven days, as per TOI’s Covid database. This was the first week since May 16-22 when a fall in cases had been noted. Weekly cases in the country had risen over nine-fold from 14,529 in May 16-22 till last week.