Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune emerge as new urban Covid hotspots

Among India’s nine largest urban centres (with 5 million plus population), it is now Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune that are witnessing the most rapid rise in Covid cases while the earlier epicentres — Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Ahmedabad — are showing signs of the outbreak slowing down. In Bengaluru, the cases have increased at an average 12.9% per day in the past four weeks.