NEW DELHI: India listed less than two lakh new Covid-19 instances on Monday for the first time in 40 days. The death toll also has been the smallest in 27 times with 3,260 deaths reported in the previous 24 hours. Meanwhile, the Covid cases dropped for the second consecutive week ending Sunday, enrolling a steeper fall of 22 percent than in the past seven days (16 percent ), in a second sign that the next tide of the pandemic at the nation was now securely on the wane. But deaths in the virus continued to grow. From the week gone (May 17-23), 29,331 deaths coming into lightup from 28,334 listed in the past week. New cases found in India in May 17-23 totalled 17,86,873, a sharp fall out of 23,00,440 illnesses listed in May 10-16. Weekly instances in the nation had peaked at the May 3-9 week, even when 27,44,545 instances have been reported, according to TOI’s daily Covid database gleaned from state authorities figures. Last week’s instances thus indicated a 35% decrease in the summit. On Mondaythe nation reported 195,994 new illnesses, the smallest per day count since April 13, when 1,85,295 instances were listed. This is the very first time since April 14 which India had listed fewer than two lakh cases a day. You will find 3,260 Covid deaths reported Monday — not counting on 231 old deaths which Maharashtra added into its overall cost — the fewest as 3,286 deaths were listed on April 27. Energetic cases in the nation dropped to under 26 lakh, together with the amount decreasing by over 1.3 lakh on Monday itself since recoveries continued to reevaluate thee brand new scenarios.