Delhi Reports 1,365 New Covid-19 Cases, Positivity Rate Dips To 6.35%

The national capital's overall Covid-19 tally has risen to 18,89,769, with a death toll of 26,177, the information showed.

A queue outside a testing centre in Delhi (File photo: getty)

New Delhi: Delhi on Thursday recorded 1,365 Covid-19 cases and zero death with a positivity rate of 6.35%, as indicated by information shared by the city health department. An aggregate of 21,501 tests was conducted in the city on Wednesday, it expressed. With the addition of these cases, the national capital's overall Covid-19 tally has risen to 18,89,769, with a death toll of 26,177, the information showed. Delhi had announced 1,354 cases with a positivity rate of 7.64 percent and one casualty because of the infection on Wednesday. 

Delhi reports 1365 new #COVID19 cases and 1472 recoveries in the last 24 hours; no deaths reported in this period.

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On Tuesday, it announced 1,414 cases with a positivity rate of 5.97 percent and one death. The city had Monday detailed 1,076 cases with a positivity rate of 6.42 percent. On Sunday, it saw 1,485 cases as the inspiration rate remained at 4.89 percent.

There are 5,746 active cases in the national capital, down from 5,853 the earlier day. The quantity of containment zones has ascended to 1,473 from 1,343 on Wednesday, the information shared in a bulletin showed.

The hospitalisation rate has so far been low, representing under three percent of the absolute number of active cases, it expressed.

At present, 192 Covid-19 patients are conceded in Delhi hospitals, while 4,189 are recovering in home-isolation, the release said.

Of the 9,593 beds for patients in different hospitals, just 208 (2.17 percent) are occupied, it stated.

The rise in Covid-19 cases and the test positivity rate in Delhi throughout recent weeks doesn't propose the beginning of another wave, but people should keep basic mitigation measures in place to prevent the spread of the infection, experts have said.

Eminent epidemiologist Dr Chandrakant Lahariya had said the test positivity rate is stagnant, and it implies the contamination is spreading at the same rate and that there is no wave.

There is an unpretentious change in the hospitalisation rate which additionally demonstrates that there is no wave, Lahariya had said.

Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had last week said Covid-19 cases have increased in the capital however the circumstance was not serious as individuals were not developing serious infection and the hospitalisation rate was low.

He had ascribed the low hospitalisation rate to vaccinations and naturally acquired immunity.

(With PTI inputs)