Mumbai: The daily case count in Mumbai has been declining steadily for the last two weeks. On Saturday April 25, Mumbai reported 5,867 new infections, the lowest this month.

Pune, the other city which had been powering the rise in cases in Maharashtra, is also showing signs of a decline, though not as strongly as Mumbai. Maharashtra was the first state to accelerate in the second wave, and its numbers grew at pretty fast rate during March.

A slowdown in Maharashtra would have a bearing on India’s growth curve as well, despite the fact that its disproportionate influence on the national numbers has declined in the last three weeks. Until March, Maharashtra was contributing almost 60 per cent of India’s cases.