Govt: Almost 91 % decline in daily new Covid cases noticed in country

Union Health Ministry has said that the country is registering a continuous decline in daily cases of COVID-19 and considerable increase in the recovery rate.

Addressing media in New Delhi last evening, Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said almost 91 per cent decline in daily new cases has been noticed since the highest reported peak in daily new cases. He said, in the last 24 hours, only 37 thousand 566 cases of corona infection were reported.

Mr Agarwal also informed that till 4th of May, there were 531 districts in the country which were reporting over 100 cases daily, now the number has come down to 111 districts. He informed that till 10th of May there were over 37 lakh active cases in the country and after that a continuous decline in such cases were noticed and now, it has come down to 5.52 lakh showing a decline by 85 per cent.