Early trend of decline in fresh Covid-19 cases, says health ministry

Southern states, including Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu, have been on a constant incline for over two weeks along with West Bengal, Odisha, and Punjab

After two months, the recoveries in a single day from Covid outnumbered the daily new cases with more than 356,082 recoveries on Tuesday against 329,942 new infections, the health ministry said.

Covid-19 cases are showing an increasing trend in 16 states in the country while another 18 have been showing early signs of decline or plateauing in the past two weeks, the ministry said during the press briefing on Covid situation in India.

Between April 27 and May 11, the number of daily new Covid cases has nearly doubled in states such as Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh,