New Delhi, Oct 4 (UNI) The National Capital recorded 3,126 cured /discharged cases of Novel Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking the total recoveries till date to 2,60,350, the state health bulletin said here on Sunday.
City's recovery rate now stands at 89.58 per cent, the bulletin said and added that active case load of the city at present stood at 24,753, after it witnessed a drop by 481 since Saturday.
In the same time, as many as 2,683 more people tested positive for the viral infection, taking the city's overall cases tally so far to 2,90,613.
Containment zones across the city have now increased to 2,696, while the number of patients presently under home isolation have reduced a little more and stood at 14,700.
After 38 more people lost their life to the highly contagious virus, the city's death toll increased to 5,510, while the death rate, based on the data of last 10 days, stood at 1.29 per cent, as per the Delhi government.
Till date, a total of 32,81,784 cumulative tests have been conducted in the city.
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