Delhi's Daily Covid Tally Dips Further With 3,674 Fresh Infections, Mumbai Logs 1,160 New Cases

COVID Tally: On Saturday, 4,483 COVID-19 cases were recorded in the national capital, with a positive rate of 7.41%. There were other reports of up to 28 deaths, PTI reported.

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New Delhi: The national capital Delhi on Sunday logged 3,674 cases with a positivity rate of 6.37 per cent and 30 additional fatalities, according to data released by the city's health department.

On Saturday, 4,483 COVID-19 cases were recorded in the national capital, with a positive rate of 7.41%. There were other reports of up to 28 deaths, PTI reported.

Delhi records 3,674 Covid cases, 30 deaths; positivity rate stands at 6.37 per cent: Authorities

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According to the most recent report, the number of cases in the national capital has risen to 18,27,489, with a death toll of 25,827. COVID-19 tests were done 57,686 times a day ago, according to the report.

On Friday, Delhi had 4,044 cases with an 8.60 per cent positive rate and 25 fatalities. It had registered 4,291 cases the day before, with a positive rate of 9.56 per cent and 34 fatalities. 

After reaching a new high of 28,867 on January 13, the number of daily cases in Delhi has started declining. On January 14, the city reported a positive rate of 30.6 per cent, the highest during the pandemic's current wave.

It only took ten days for daily instances to fall below 10,000.

Mumbai Covid-19 Tally

The city of Mumbai recorded 1,160 new coronavirus positive cases on Sunday, bringing the total to 10,45,630, with the death of 10 such patients bringing the total to 16,612, according to the civic authority.

During the day after recovery, a total of 2,530 patients were discharged. The health department of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation stated in a statement that 10,15,451 individuals had recovered from the virus in the city so far.

In the city, there are 10,797 current COVID-19 cases.

On Sunday, 46,307 tests were done, bringing the total number of tests to 1,52,43,823.

One hundred and nine of the 1,160 new cases are asymptomatic, while 160 require hospitalisation. 29 of them are on life support. Only 2,268 of the 37,573 beds are occupied. The case doubling rate in Mumbai is 375 days, and the recovery rate is 97 per cent.

IS Chahal, Mumbai's civic commissioner, said the city's positivity rate had dropped to 2.5 per cent.

(With PTI Inputs)