Daily COVID-19 cases further increased on Sunday with the city reporting 1,963 fresh infections, a five-fold increase since February 9 when the fresh cases were 375. While the test positivity rate (TPR) hit 9.5 per cent on Sunday, the recovery rate slightly decreased to 92 per cent. The state also registered more than 16,000 fresh cases and 50 deaths.

Sources said that while it had taken almost three-and-a-half months to hit a low of 400 cases daily, within a month the situation has gone back to what it was. On Sunday, a total of 20,695 tests were conducted. Though the number of daily tests have been more or less the same over the past one week, the number of cases increased from 1,360 to almost 2,000.