new Covid-19 cases on an average and the Covid-19 graph seems to be plateauing, the challenge has not ended yet, said Lav Agarwal, joint secretary of Union health ministry, on Thursday. “On an average, 20,000 Covid cases have been recorded daily.
Of these 56% cases were reported from Kerala last week," said Agarwal. “Overall positivity rate of the country was nearly at 1.68% last week as compared to that of 5.86% earlier," he added.
He informed that five states – Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Mizoram and Karnataka – have over 10,000 active Covid-19 cases at the moment.
Kerala alone has over 1 lakh active Covid-19 cases currently. As many as 34 districts across nine states and UTs reporting a weekly positivity rate of more than 10%.