The Covid-19 weekly case in India fell 4% after registering a 7.5% surge last week, mainly due to steep decreases in several northeastern countries.
India recorded more than 2.74 lakh cases during the week ended Sunday (August 2-8), registering a decline of 4.2% from the previous week, when the number of cases was 2.86 lakh.
That week (July 26 – August 1), new cases in the country have increased for the first time in 12 weeks behind a 27% surge in Kerala and a smaller increase in Karnataka and several states in the northeast.
This week, Kerala cases show signs of highland, with a 1% increase in marginal for a week before.
In absolute numbers, the country reported more than 1.41 cases of lakh, the highest weekly number since the last week of May.
Kerala accounts for more than 51% of all new cases reported for a week.
Tamil Nadu, where cases increased marginally over the past 10 days, recorded a weekly spike of 5% while Andhra Pradesh recorded a 1% increase.
With this, all southern states, with the exception of Telangana, have recorded a surge in infection this week or the last.
Meanwhile, deaths for a week fell to 3,540, the lowest weekly victims in the country since the beginning of April.
This is a 7% sauce of the victim 3.805 the previous week.
The decline in a weekly case mainly due to a sharp decline in fresh infections in the northeast, with Sikkim reported falling 43%, Tripura 32%, Arunachal Pradesh 26%, Manipur 25% and Mizoram 22%.
The case increased in several states until last week.