Covid roundup: Daily cases dip, govt announces relief measures and more

India continues to maintain the declining trend in daily new Covid cases. The country recorded less than 3 lakh cases for the 13th consecutive days now. Earlier today, India reported 1,73,790 fresh Covid-19 cases. This is the lowest daily rise in cases in last 45 days, pushing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 27,729,247.