guwahati with more than 1500 cases being reported daily on an average the assam government may not give major relaxations in the fresh sop to be announced on tuesday health department sources said depending on mondays covid statistics some districts however may get relaxation from roundtheclock curfew at the last minute but the interdistrict travel ban is likely to continue even as daily covid cases dropped to near a thousand 1054 on sunday health officials said the decline was mainly due to a drop in the number of tests by half if compared to near 15 lakh tests carried out till a few days agonevertheless the positivity rate has dropped to below 2 per cent in all five districts golaghat jorhat lakhimpur sonitpur and biswanath districts that were put under total curfew last week there has been some improvement in the mostinfected districts but progress is slow cases are still being reported but there has not been deterioration in covid situation anywhere in the state executive director of assam national health mission dr manoj choudhury told toi on mondayaccording to health experts though the number of cases has dropped its still not on expected lines especially after the positive cases detected in the state on monday again increased to 1528 they felt that the situation is not yet conducive for withdrawal of most of the restrictions that are in force since last week compared to the situation a week before based on which the last sop was issued the daily case number has come down by about 200 though the states positivity rate reduced to 092 per cent on monday mostly due to mammoth 166846 tests done in the past 24 hours health officials said the total case numbers still remains a worryin kamrup metro district 199 cases and 26 deaths were reported on monday still a lot needs to be done to contain the virus said assam director of medical education dr anup kumar barman as the states recovery rate improved to 9641 per cent as on sunday night three districts kamrup metro golaghat and lakhimpur have reported more than 1000 cases in the past 10 days kamrup metro reported the highest 2032 cases followed by 1526 cases in golaghat and 1042 cases in lakhimpur during the period there were 13910 active cases in assam as of sunday night