Covid-19 Cases On April 24: Another Dip In Count, India Logs 7178 Cases, 16 Deaths On Sunday
New Delhi: The weekend concluded on a good note as India witnessed a dip in the daily count of fresh covid cases. On April 24, that is Sunday, 7178 cases were recorded along with 16 deaths 8 fresh and 8 reconciled. With this, the daily positivity rate was recorded as 9.16 per cent. In the past few weeks since the end of March, the fresh case count of covid has been on the rise on Friday, over 12000 cases and 40 deaths were reported. However, on Saturday it dipped to a little over 10000 cases and the same trend followed on Sunday. With this, the weekly positivity rate currently stands at 5.41 per cent. However, the trend could be due to comparatively fewer tests being conducted on Sundays. The coronavirus pandemic struck India in March 2020. This was when the first lockdown was imposed. A year later, immunisation drive kicked off in January 2021 followed by the second wave in April-May the same year.
Monday, April 24, 2023 at 4:46 am