NEW DELHI: Delhi on Friday reported 4086 new
Covid-19 positive cases in one day, highest in last 35 days, with the positivity rate being 6.98%. For over a month the single day cases have remained below 4,000 – 4,071 cases were reported on September 19. The number of deaths was 26, lowest in the last one week, causing a minor dip in the death rate.
The city conducted 58,568 Covid-19 tests which included 16,874 RT-PCR tests and 41,694 rapid antigen tests. A total of 3,296 patients recovered from the infection in a day indicating that the recovery rate continues to be solid. The positivity rate has been steadily rising for the last three days, it was 6.24% on Wednesday and 6.61% a day later.
According to the daily Covid-19 update released by the government, Delhi has 26,001 active cases, the cumulative positivity rate is 8.18%, case fatality rate is 1.78%. Delhi has so far conducted 42.5 lakh tests and reported 3.4 lakh positive cases out of which 3.1 lakh patients have recovered.
The city witnessed a marginal increase in the occupancy of hospitals. As compared to 5,116 occupied beds in Covid hospitals of the city a day before 5,182 beds were occupied on Friday. Delhi has 15,739 beds in government and private Covid hospitals out of which 10,557 were vacant indicating the huge availability of beds in the capital.
Among the 26,001 active patients 15,483 re currently under home isolation and are being remotely monitored by the government. The recovery of patients under home isolation has been very high in Delhi.
Lieutenant governor Anil Baijal with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal took a review meeting with various stakeholder departments and discussed the Covid-19
pandemic and pollution control measures.