Some Respite For Delhi As Covid Positivity Rate Declines To 23.34 Percent; 17,364 New Cases Reported

With 17,364 new cases, the total Coronavirus caseload in Delhi has now risen to 13,10,231. Apart from this, the total death toll has reached 19,071. So far, 12,03,253 patients have been cured in the national capital.

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New Delhi: There is some relief for the residents of the national capital battling Covid crisis and lack of oxygen as the case positivity rate in Delhi has continued to decline.

In the last 24 hours, Delhi has reported 17,364 new cases of Coronavirus along with 332 fatalities. According to the data shared in the Health bulletin on Saturday, 20,160 patients have recovered from the infection in the last 24 hours.

With 17,364 new cases, the total Coronavirus caseload in Delhi has now risen to 13,10,231. Apart from this, the total death toll has reached 19,071. So far, 12,03,253 patients have been cured in the national capital.

Meanwhile, the Covid positivity rate in Delhi today was reported to be 23.34 percent and this comes as an improvement as compared to 24.92 percent as on Friday.

On Friday Arti Ahuja, Additional Secretary (Health) had said that Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and Jharkhand are the states/UTs where cases were increasing earlier but are now plateauing.

When we see states where the trend is going upwards, those states are Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Haryana, Odisha and Uttarakhand, she informed.

Other states with an increasing trend in daily new cases are Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, and Nagaland, she added.

19,085 people were reported to have been infected with Covid in Delhi on Friday and 341 patients died. 19,085 patients had recovered.

Earlier on Thursday, 19,133 new cases were confirmed along with 335 deaths. On Wednesday, 20,960 people were infected with Coronavirus and 311 patients lost their lives. On Tuesday, 19,953 new cases of infection were reported and 338 patients died. 

As for today, 74,384 samples have been tested in Delhi during the last 24 hours, of which 62921 tests have been done through RTPCR/CBNAT.