Amid the ongoing festive season, Delhi has seen an alarming rising spike in the number of cases in recent weeks, shattering its previous records of single-day infections and fatalities.
The spike in cases also coincide with the onset of winters, rising pollution and the busy festival season.
A look at Delhi’s Covid-19 figures:
The national capital has reported over 450,000 cases so far, 43,116 of which are active. With this, the overall case tally has reached 4,67,028 while the cumulative causality stands at 7,053. In total, 53,22,274 tests have been performed so far in the national capital.
Delhi has a positivity rate of 11.71 per cent while the case fatality rate stands at 1.57 per cent.
The national capital had recorded its highest single-day spike of 8,593 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, while 85 deaths linked to the disease were recorded on that day.
80 per cent ICU beds in private hospitals to be reserved for covid patients
Earlier in the day, the Delhi High Court slowed the AAP government to reserve 80 per cent of ICU beds for COVID-19 patients in 33 private hospitals. The move came as shot in the arm for the city dispensation which was struggling to ramp up health infrastructure in view of a sudden spike in cases.