A health worker collects a swab sample of a resident at a free testing centre for the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Hyderabad (AFP)
NEW DELHI: A day after India had added over 50,000 infections to its Covid-19 count for the first time, fresh cases dropped to their lowest in five days, with 46,357 infections being detected in the country on Monday. The day’s toll, at 638, was also the least in a week.
The dip was consistent with the long-running trend of lower number of cases recorded on Mondays. However, unlike in previous weeks, this time testing had seen a rise on Sunday, with over 5 lakh tests conducted in the country for the first t