Delhi's Daily Covid Tally Dips Further With 4,044 Fresh Infections, Mumbai Logs 1,312 New Cases

COVID Tally: As the curfew-free weekend starts in Delhi, the number of daily cases has gone down, according to health bulletin data.

COVID-19 patient in a COVID care facility in Delhi (AFP photo)

New Delhi: The national capital Delhi on Friday has witnessed another dip in its daily Covid-19 cases after as many 4,044 people tested positive for the infection, said the city's health bulletin data.

The most recent figures are 5.7% lower than Thursday when 4,291 new Covid-19 cases were accounted for in the national capital. The aggregate count of Delhi has now arrived at 18,19,332, the bulletin information showed.

Delhi reports 4044 new COVID cases, 8042 recoveries, and 25 deaths in the last 24 hours

Active cases: 29,152
Today's positivity rate: 8.60% pic.twitter.com/oltoN00QNJ

— ANI (@ANI) January 28, 2022

The positivity rate of the cases in Delhi has also dropped below 9% in 24 hours - from 9.56% on Thursday to 8.60% today. While 25 people have lost their lives to the illness as opposed to 34 on Thursday. The death toll of Delhi has now ascended to 25,769, the data revealed.

However, the quantity of new recoveries has dropped for the second sequential day following 8,042 patients recovering from the disease.

On Thursday, 9,397 individuals recovered, down from 11,164 the day before. Delhi has up to this point seen an aggregate of 17,64,411 recovered from COVID-19, according to the released information.

Today, more tests, which include both RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen Test (RAT), were conducted in Delhi. 47,042 tests were carried out across the city, up from 44,903 on Thursday. Moreover, hospitalisation numbers declined below 2,000 in wake of the reduction in the single-day Covid-19 cases of the city.

Mumbai COVID-19 cases tally

In a continuous decline in daily cases, Mumbai on Friday reported 1,312 new COVID-19 cases, 4,990 recoveries, and 10 people died due to complications related to the infection, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said.

#CoronavirusUpdates
28th January, 6:00pm

Positive Pts. (24 hrs) - 1312
Discharged Pts. (24 hrs) - 4990

Total Recovered Pts. - 10,09,374

Overall Recovery Rate - 97%

Total Active Pts. - 14344

Doubling Rate - 259 Days

Growth Rate (21 Jan - 27 Jan)- 0.27%#NaToCorona

— माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC (@mybmc) January 28, 2022

The total tally of cases in Mumbai is 10,43,059, and the death toll to 16,591, as per the BMC data. Meanwhile, one of the largest slums in Asia, Dharavi recorded no new cases on Friday after a gap of over a month, officials were cited as saying by PTI.