Delhi Saw 48% Rise In Home Isolation Covid Cases In Last One Week: Report

On Thursday, there were 574 home isolation cases and 325 new coronavirus cases, with a positivity rate of 2.39 per cent.

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New Delhi: Delhi witnessed a rise of nearly 48 per cent in the number of home isolation Covid-19 cases in the last one week, according to official data. This comes amid an increase in Covid-19 cases in the national capital and positivity rate surpassing 2 per cent, PTI reported.

On Thursday, there were 574 home isolation cases and 325 new coronavirus cases, with a positivity rate of 2.39 per cent.

There has been a slight spike in the number of daily cases in recent days, and the positive rate has risen beyond one per cent since April 4, when it was at 1.34 per cent, the report said.

The number of home isolation cases has increased in the previous week as the Covid positivity rate in the national capital has risen from 0.57 per cent on April 1 to 2.39 per cent on April 14.

According to statistics given by local health department officials, the city recorded 146 cases on April 8 with a positive rate of 1.39 per cent and 388 patients were under home isolation.

The number of home isolation cases touched 574 on April 14. On April 11, there were 447 home isolation cases and on April 13, it stood at 504. There has been a rise of nearly 48 per cent in home isolation cases in the last one week.

Doctors have said that there was no need to panic since the number of daily cases were low, but they warned against dropping the guard.

Many doctors had also said that very few people were going for a Covid test after onset of symptoms and people were preferring to recuperate at home.

According to government figures, the Covid-19 tally in Delhi and the disease's death toll stood at 18,67,206 and 26,158 respectively on Thursday.

The positive rate was 2.7 per cent on Monday, the highest in two months. On February 5, it was 2.87 per cent.

During the third wave of the pandemic, the number of daily Covid cases in Delhi reached a record high of 28,867 on January 13.

On January 14, the city had a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent, the highest during the pandemic's third wave, which was predominantly driven by the highly transmissible Omicron form of the coronavirus.

On February 1st, there were 12,312 incidents of home isolation. The number of patients in home isolation had steadily decreased by late February.

On February 24, the number of home isolation instances was at 1,559, indicating a significant drop in the data. It then plummeted even more, only to climb again in April.