Kerala reported 51.51 per cent of the total Covid-19 cases recorded in the country in the past seven days, the central government said on Tuesday. At a joint press briefing on the pandemic, an official said that 37 districts across nine states, including Kerala (11 districts) and Tamil Nadu (seven districts), were showing rising trend in daily Covid-19 cases over the last two weeks. Also, as many as 44 districts across 11 states and Union territories reported a weekly positivity rate of more than 10 per cent, the official said.

According to the Centre, the reproduction number that denotes the spread of Covid-19 was more than 1 in five states — Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh, Goa and Nagaland have their reproduction number at 1, Joint Secretary in the Union Health Ministry Lav Agarwal said. For India, it is around 1, he added.