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OVER 1,800 COVID CASES IN A DAY IN DELHI, HIGHEST IN 100 DAYS

The national capital of Delhi reported over 1,800 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest in about 100 days, the Health Department said. Nine more people died due to the disease, taking the count to 11,006, it said. The 1,881 new infections pushed the tally to 6,57,715, while over 6.39 lakh patients have recovered from the […]

The national capital of Delhi reported over 1,800 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the highest in about 100 days, the Health Department said. Nine more people died due to the disease, taking the count to 11,006, it said. The 1,881 new infections pushed the tally to 6,57,715, while over 6.39 lakh patients have recovered from the virus. This is the highest number of cases since December 13 when 1,984 people tested positive for the virus, according to official data.

The city had recorded 1,558 cases on Saturday, 1,534 cases on Friday, 1,515 cases on Thursday, 1,254 cases on Wednesday and 1,101 cases on Tuesday — the first time since December 24 that the number of cases crossed the 1,000 mark.

The positivity rate was 1.70 per cent on Saturday,1.80 per cent on Friday, 1.69 per cent on Thursday, 1.52 per cent on Wednesday, 1.31 per cent on Tuesday, and 1.32 per cent on Monday.

The number of active Covid-19 cases rose to 7,545 from 6,625 on Saturday. A total of 79,936 tests, including 53,422 RT-PCR tests, were conducted a day ago, the bulletin said. The number of people under home isolation rose to 4,237 from 3,708 a day ago. The number of containment zones in the city rose to 1,710 from 1,506 on Saturday, it said.

The caseload in Delhi on January 1 had stood at over 6.25 lakh and the total fatalities were 10,557. The number of daily cases had started to come down in February. On February 26, the month’s highest daily count of 256 cases was recorded.

However, the daily cases have begun to rise again in March and it has been steadily increasing over the past few days.

Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Saturday dismissed any possibility of imposing another lockdown in Delhi, saying it was not a solution to check the spread of the coronavirus that is again surging rapidly. He said there were enough hospital beds available for coronavirus patients and it could be increased if the need arises.

City-based doctors have attributed this “sudden rise” in cases to people turning complacent, and not following pandemic-related SOP.

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