Pockets of rising infections emerge even as Covid-19 wave ebbs across India

Currently, at the national level, Covid-19 cases continue to decrease, a trend that has largely sustained since the peak of the second wave on May 9, when the daily cases averaged 391,819.

In the week ended November 17, India reported 10,978 new cases of Covid-19 every day on average. This is the lowest that the seven-day average (a number that denotes a region’s Covid curve) has dropped to since the week ended June 14, 2020 – a time when the first wave of the pandemic was just kicking off in the country.

Although over 80% of adults in India have now received at least one dose of the vaccine, 44% of the country’s districts were below this threshold on November 17.(HT_PRINT)

Share of fully vaccinated adults