While 1,008 Covid-19 cases and 40 deaths were reported across the country in a single day, the number of active cases has dropped by around 20,000 over the last two months.

The number of active cases, which had reached 50,000 by the end of November 2020, dropped to 31,510 on Tuesday. It is the second time that active cases have witnessed a downward trend. During the first wave of Covid-19, the number of active cases had surpassed the 50,000 mark in June last year, which later started declining and finally dropped to less than 6,000 in September.

The number of active cases again started increasing and reached 11,190 on October 27 and then 30,362 on November 18, 2020, following which the government officially announced the beginning of second wave of the pandemic in the country. The figure reached 50,000 by the end of November.

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