The Union Health Ministry on Tuesday said that five states which have been affected most by the coronavirus pandemic have seen a decline in the number of infection since one month. The ministry said that the trend of daily cases of COVID-19 in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh reveals the various stages of the decline of active cases.

The ministry showed the graph of the decline in cases in these states in a tweet. "These mirror the steady decrease in ACTIVE CASES in the country, with the caseload being sustained below 8L for 3 days in a row," the tweet said.

On Monday, 55,722 new cases of the coronavirus disease were reported which were the lowest in five days, and 579 related deaths taking India's tally to past 7.5 million. The number of fatalities in the last 24 hours was also the lowest in months. There were 772,055 active cases of Covid-19 and the country's death toll went up to 114,610, with the cumulative tally of coronavirus infections at 7,550,273. The active cases had been less than 800,000 for the third straight day.