According to data shared by the health department here, Delhi recorded 27 Covid-19 cases, the lowest since April 15 last year and zero deaths due to the infection on Monday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.07 per cent. The low number of new cases can be attributed to only 39,587 fewer tests conducted on the previous day.
According to covid19India.org, a crowdsourced initiative to collect data on COVID-19 and vaccination in India, Delhi had recorded 17 cases on April 15 last year. With the new cases, the total number of infections in the city has gone up to 14,37,118. Out of this, more than 14.11 lakh patients have recovered from the disease.
The death toll now stands at 25,069. So far this month, 16 people have died of the disease. The cumulative death toll stood at 25,053 as on July 31.
On Sunday, Delhi recorded 53 cases of coronavirus and zero daily deaths, while the positivity rate stood at 0.08 per cent. On Saturday, it reported 50 Covid-19 cases and one fatality, as the positivity rate stood at 0.07 per cent.
Delhi currently has 467 active cases of the disease, and 165 of them are in home-isolation, the data showed. It states that the number of containment zones in the city is 242.
Delhi battled a brutal second wave of the pandemic with oxygen shortages in hospitals across the city claiming a large number of lives. On April 20, Delhi had reported 28,395 cases, the highest in the city since the start of the pandemic. The case positivity rate on April 22 was 36.2 percent, which is the highest ever.
The maximum number of 448 deaths occurred on 3 May. The city government is improving health infrastructure to prevent a recurrence of the crisis seen during the peak of the second wave of the pandemic in April and May.
Steps have been taken to increase the number of hospital beds to accommodate 37,000 cases a day and become self-sufficient in oxygen supply. According to officials, around 160 PSA oxygen generation plants with a total capacity of 148.11 MT are being set up in various government and private hospitals in the city.
66 plants are being set up in Delhi government hospitals, 10 in central government hospitals and 84 in private health facilities. According to government data, 1.16 crore vaccine doses have been given in the capital since the vaccination exercise started on January 16.
More than 32 lakh people have received both the doses. The health department had recently told the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) that it would take another year for all eligible beneficiaries above the age of 18 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus at the “current rate of supply of the vaccine”.
About 1.5 crore beneficiaries in the national capital are eligible for COVID-19 vaccination and they require three crore doses to be fully vaccinated. About 45 lakh doses are required every month to complete the vaccination by December 2021.
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