14 New Covid-19 Containment Zones Added In Delhi, Total In State Goes Up To 92

11,659 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the national capital. 5,567 persons have been cured while the death toll is 194 in Delhi, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Health workers wearing Personal Protective Equipments (PPE) walk past at MGR Central railway station as passengers arrive to board a special train to New Delhi after the government eased a nationwide lockdown imposed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Chennai on May 15, 2020. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP)

New Delhi: The coronavirus pandemic has been on the rise in the National Capital Delhi over the past week with the total number of COVID-19 positive cases surging well over over the 11,000 mark in  Delhi. With an aim to contain the the onslaught of the virus which has already spread like wild fire across the metropolitan city, fourteen new areas were added to the list of containment zones in Delhi on Friday taking the total number of such zones to 92 in the national capital. Till date, 34 areas have been 'de-contained in the Delhi. 11,659 persons have tested positive for COVID-19 in the national capital. 5,567 persons have been cured while the death toll is 194 in Delhi, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. There are 66,330 active cases of COVID-19 in the country at present. As many as 3,583 people have lost their lives due to the coronavirus in the country.