With cases in the past seven days down 27% from the total for the week before, the current Covid-19 rise in the nation looks to have peaked. This is the first drop in the case count for the seventh day in 13 weeks since the start of February. Other indicators such as fatalities, active cases and the positivity rate too registered a drop. There was a slight decline in deaths from the virus, with the toll in the seven days ending Saturday falling to 131, from 160 in the previous week.
India reported 53,737 fresh cases during April 23-29 as opposed to 73,873 in the preceding week, when the current surge fuelled by new sublineages of the Omicron variant appears to have reached its peak.
All major states, except a few in the east and the northeast, reported a drop in fresh cases last week (April 23- 29).
As in the past several weeks, Kerala reported the highest count of cases at 11,726. But the number had declined by 28% from the preceding week. Similar declines were reported from Haryana (5,203, down 27%), Maharashtra (4,117, down 33%), Uttar Pradesh (3,507, down 36%) and Tamil Nadu (2,937, down 20%).
India reports 9,629 new Covid-19 cases, active caseload dips to 61,013. India has logged 9,629 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases have decreased to 61,013 from 63,380, according to the Union health ministry data.