Delhi reports 1,647 fresh Covid-19 cases, death toll goes up by 73

NEW DELHI: The death count in the capital due to the novel coronavirus touched 1,400 on Monday with 73 deaths being recorded in past 24 hours.
The number of daily new cases, however, came down below the 2,000 mark with 1,647 people testing positive for the disease.
For the past three days, the city had been reporting more than 2,000 positive cases daily; 2,137 new cases on Friday, 2,134 cases on Saturday and 2,224 positive cases of Covid-19 on Sunday.
The total number of cases in the state, reached 42,829, highest in the country after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
Officials said a total of 6,105 samples were tested for the viral infection in the past 24 hours and efforts are on to scale it up to 10,000 samples on a daily basis. At least 5,420 people, who suffer from the Covid-19, are currently admitted in different hospitals in the city. Of these, 794 are requiring ICU support and 197 others, who are seriously ill, are on ventilator support, officials in the state health department said.
Those with mild to moderate symptoms have been kept in Covid-19 health centres and Covid-19 care centres, which have basic medical facilities and isolation beds.