Covid Cases Have Stabilised In Delhi, Likely To Taper Down In Coming Days: Health Minister

Recent Covid deaths in Delhi have been caused by comorbidities and the viral infection was incidental, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said. He added cases in the capital have stabilised.

Most of the coronavirus-related deaths in Delhi during the recent times were caused by comorbidities and that COVID was incidental, the health minister said.

Source : PTI

Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj said that the national capital’s Covid cases have stabilised and are likely to taper down in the coming days. 

"Covid cases have sort of stabilised. Recently, it was being said that the cases were showing an upward trend. Now, it is likely to taper down in the coming days”, he was quoted by the news agency PTI.

Delhi on Thursday logged 1,603 Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 26.75 per cent along with three fatalities, according to data shared by the city health department here. With the new fatalities, the death toll in the city due to the coronavirus pandemic rose to 26,581.

When the Delhi Health Minister was asked about the fatalities being reported regularly in Delhi due to the viral disease, Bharadwaj said that most of the coronavirus-related deaths in Delhi during the recent times were caused by comorbidities and that Covid was incidental. 

"In most of these cases, patients had serious illnesses for a long time and Covid was incidental. But, any death is unfortunate, and it should not happen”, he was quoted as saying by PTI.

Out of 7,976 Covid beds in the hospitals of Delhi, 390 are occupied, the health department data showed. A day earlier, the city reported six deaths along with 1,757 new cases with a positivity rate of 28.63 per cent.
 
When asked about special arrangements considered for schools and children in view of the Covid cases, the minister said no such step was being planned as of now.

"We are telling teachers that if students have cough and cold, those children should be advised to take rest. We will appeal to parents to not send their children to school if they have such symptoms," he said.

On the Delhi government's preparedness to fight the Covid pandemic, Bharadwaj assured that all arrangements are in place including Covid beds and oxygen beds. 

 "We have all our arrangements in place, including Covid beds, oxygen beds, ICU beds, oxygen supply, and others”, he said.