Coronavirus-related Google searches in India see a decline in May

After dominating the conversations for weeks, coronavirus seems to be falling off the popularity charts as netizens in the country went back to searching for topics like films and weather on Google in May.

According to Google search trends, the search volume for coronavirus in May was half of that in April even though the number of Covid-19 cases have continued to rise in the country.

‘Coronavirus’ dropped to 12th most searched topic overall during May, behind topics like Film, Meaning, News and Weather.

All these terms are consistently highly searched topics in India. This probably indicates that people are trying to return back to consumption patterns seen in the pre-Covid times.