Kovid-19: 2,779 new cases reported in Delhi, positivity rate 6.20 percent Delhi News – Times of India

New Delhi: 38 people died in Delhi and 2,779 COVID-19 Cases in a day, while the positivity rate declined marginally to 6.20 per cent, according to data shared by the city’s health department on Monday.
Being a Sunday, the number of cases may have come down due to the low number of tests conducted on the previous day (44,847).
Delhi recorded 3,674 cases with a positivity rate of 6.37 per cent, while 30 more deaths were reported on Sunday.
On Saturday, the national capital had registered 4,483 Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 7.41 per cent. There is also news of the death of 28 people.
As per the latest update, the number of cases in the national capital has risen to 18,30,268 and the death toll has risen to 25,865. The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day earlier stood at 44847, which included 40,476 RT-PCR ones.
On Friday, Delhi had reported 4,044 cases with a positivity rate of 8.60 per cent and 25 deaths. On Thursday, it recorded 4,291 cases with a positivity rate of 9.56 per cent and 34 deaths.
There has been a decline in the number of daily cases in Delhi after a record high of 28,867 on January 13. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic.
It took just 10 days for the daily cases to come down below the 10,000 mark.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) on Thursday allowed the reopening of restaurants, bars, cinema halls and theaters in the city with 50 per cent capacity besides weekend curfew and odd-even arrangement for opening of non-essential shops in the city. decided to remove it. Improvement in the situation of covid.
Hospitals in Delhi have 15,428 beds for Covid patients and only 1,518 (9.84 per cent) of them are occupied.
The active cases in Delhi on Monday stood at 18,729, while the number of containment zones stood at 38,046.
Also, a total of 555 coronavirus patients were on oxygen support, out of which 128 serious Covid-19 patients were on ventilator support.
The number of people under home isolation was 14,328 on Monday while it was 16,165 on Sunday.

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