India’s weekly Covid-19 cases drop 15%, lowest in 6 months | India News – Times of India

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India recorded a 15% drop in fresh Covid-19 detected in the week ending Sunday, the lowest weekly count in more than six months, with Kerala numbers declining by a steep 21%.
The country reported over 2.14 lakh new cases in the week (September 13-19), down from 2.51 lakh in the previous seven days. This was the lowest number of cases reported in 27 weeks since March 8-14 (for weeks ending Sunday).
This was the second consecutive week of a substantial decline in Covid numbers. Last week, cases in the country had seen a 13% drop, while in the previous seven days, numbers were mainly flat with a drop of just 0.6%.
The sharp fall in infections were mainly due to numbers dropping in Kerala, which still accounted for 62% of all cases in the country during the week. Kerala reported 1.33 lakh fresh cases, a drop of 20.6% from the previous week’s tally of over 1.67 lakh. Two week earlier, Kerala’s weekly case count had crossed 2 lakh, as the latest wave of the pandemic in the state peaked.

Cases continued to decline in Maharashtra while Mizoram and Tamil Nadu registered a rise in infections during the week. India recorded 2,315 deaths from the virus in the week, a 10% increase from the previous week’s toll of 2,104.
Meanwhile, on Sunday, India reported 30,814 fresh cases, nearly the same as the number on the previous day (31,242), as Kerala logged 19,653 new infections. The state had recorded 19,352 cases the previous day.
There were 295 deaths from the virus, with Kerala reporting 152 fatalities, Maharashtra 49, Tamil Nadu 27, Karnataka 16 and Bengal 11.

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