New Delhi, Dec 3 (UNI) The national capital on Thursday registered 3,734 new cases of COVID 19, the state health bulletin said here.

With these new cases the city's nCoV case tally has now surged to 5,82,058, the data said.

In the same period, the city also recorded 4,834 patients who recovered from COVID-19, taking the total number of recoveries

in the city so far to 5,43,514, the bulletin said, adding that the city's recovery rate currently stands at 93.37 per cent.

The bulletin said that with the recoveries being higher than the new cases in the past 24 hours, it has resulted in

reducing the active case load on the city by 1,182 since Wednesday, and the capital presently houses 29,120 active nCoV cases.

However, during the same period 82 more people lost their lives to the virus, taking the city's pandemic fatality count till

date to 9,424.

Death rate based on the past ten days data is currently 1.91 per cent, the bulletin said.

Patients currently under home isolation in the city are 17,790, while the number of containment zones as on Thursday stood

at 5,759, the bulletin added.

A total of 75,230 COVID tests were conducted in the city during the past 24 hours.

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