Nearly four weeks after Covid cases began surging in the city, triggering alarm bells, cases dropped by about 40 per cent between June 27 and July 3 over the previous week, showed BMC data. As reported by mid-day on June 21, the Covid curve started moving south two weeks ago. Now, there are clear indications that cases have now moved onto the slow track.

Unlike the first and second waves in which it took 2-3 months for numbers to come down, the recent surges have been short. In the third wave—between December 2021 and January 2022—cases came down after about five weeks, while it was about two weeks in the latest instance.