Assam posts slowest rate of fall in Covid-19 cases

While fresh cases of Covid-19 have been declining across most of the country since mid-May, some states have been registering a stubbornly slow rate of fall, which is a cause of concern with the emergence of newer variants of the virus.
Covid cases have been decreasing at the slowest pace in the country in Assam, Kerala, Maharashtra, Telangana and Odisha. Assam has recorded an average daily rate of decline of 2.2% since the seven-day rolling average of daily cases hit a peak in the state on May 22 — the lowest pace among all states except the smaller ones in the northeast.
Of particular concern would be the rate of fall in Kerala and Maharashtra, the two states that have been recording the highest number of fresh infections in recent days and where the count of active cases remains above 1 lakh.
Kerala has logged 2.7% rate of fall in daily cases, the second slowest after Assam, while in Maharashtra cases have been decreasing at a daily average of 3.2%.
At the other end, Rajasthan has registered the highest rate of fall in daily cases at 9.4%, followed by Uttarakhand (8.4%) and Delhi (8.2%).
Meanwhile, India recorded 49,851 fresh cases on Saturday and 911 deaths.
The count of active cases fell below 6 lakh to around 5.9 lakh.