India logs 13% fall in new COVID-19 cases in week, but reports highest number of new infections globally

The WHO update said that the highest number of new deaths was reported from India.

India registered a 13% decrease in new cases in the past week but the number of fresh infections was still the highest around the world, the WHO has said. The number of new cases and deaths continued to decrease with just over 4.8 million new cases and just under 86,000 new deaths reported globally in the past week, a 12% and 5% decrease respectively compared to the previous week, according to the COVID-19 Weekly Epidemiological Update Data received by the World Health Organisation from national authorities as of May 16. It said that the highest number of new cases were reported from India (2,387,663 new cases), a 13% decrease over the previous week.