NEW DELHI: Despite the growing Omicron scare and rising coronavirus cases globally, Covid infections continue to fall in India. The country logged less than 50,000 fresh cases in the week ending Sunday, the first time in 19 months that the weekly count had dropped below that mark.
India recorded nearly 49,000 fresh cases in the week (December 13-19), a drop of 12.3% from the previous week’s count of 55,824 and the lowest point of the pandemic in the country since May 2020, as per TOI’s Covid database. The last time weekly cases had dropped below 50,000 was on May 25-31, 2020, when the country had recorded 48,858.
