Delhi on Tuesday recorded 585 fresh Covid-19 cases and two fatalities due to the disease, while the positivity rate stood at 4.35 per cent, according to data shared by the health 🎐department here.
With this, the national capital's Covid-19 caseload climbed to 19,44,978, while the death toll rose to 26,296, the department's latest bulletin showed. The fresh cases came out of 13,452 Covi🎐d🙈 tests conducted on Monday, it said.
Delhi on Monday reported 378 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 6.06 per cent and two deaths. On Sunday, the city recorded 498 Covid cases with a positivity rate of 3.57 per cenꦆt and o𒆙ne fatality due to the disease.
It had on Saturday logged 491 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 3.48 per cent and two fat🧜alities.
Of the 9,💛488 beds for Covid-19 patients in Delhi hospitals, only 118 were occupied as on Tuesday. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid health centres were lying vaca💟nt.
The number of acti🔥ve Covid-19 cases in Delhi now stands at 2,040, up from 1,886 the previous day. As many as 1,355 patients are under home-isolation, the bulletin showed. There are 206 containment zones in the city at present, it added.
Delhi has reported a few cases of the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, which are hi🐬ghly transmissible, but experts have asked people not to panic as these sub-variants do not cause severe infection.
The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Delhi touched the record high of 28,867 on January 13 during the third wave of the pandemic. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per ce𒀰nt on January 14, the highest during the third wave of the pandemic.
