Delhi on Saturday recorded 544 recent COVID-19 instances with a positivity fee of three.37 per cent, as two extra individuals succumbed to the virus, in line with well being division knowledge.
This is the third consecutive day when the every day case rely has remained within the vary of 500-600. Delhi on Friday had recorded 531 Covid instances with a positivity fee of three.13 per cent, and three fatalities.
With the recent infections and fatalities, Delhi’s caseload climbed to 19,40,302 and the demise toll elevated to 26,282, the well being division bulletin stated.
The recent instances got here out of 16,158 assessments carried out the day past, it stated.
Delhi had on Thursday recorded 579 COVID-19 instances with a positivity fee of three.46 per cent and one demise. On Wednesday, town had logged 600 COVID-19 instances with a positivity fee of three.27 per cent and one demise.
The capital had recorded 615 instances with a positivity fee of three.89 per cent and three deaths on Tuesday.
Of the 9,469 beds for COVID-19 sufferers in Delhi hospitals, solely 151 had been occupied on Saturday. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid well being centres are mendacity vacant, the bulletin stated.
The variety of lively instances in Delhi stands at 2,264, down from 2,329 the day past. As many as 1,595 sufferers are underneath house isolation, it stated.
There are 316 containment zones within the capital, it added.
The nationwide capital has reported a couple of instances of the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, that are extremely transmissible, however specialists have requested individuals to not panic as these sub-variants don’t trigger extreme an infection.
The variety of every day Covid instances in Delhi touched the report excessive of 28,867 on January 13 throughout the third wave of the pandemic. The metropolis had recorded a positivity fee of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the very best throughout the third wave of the pandemic.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”