Delhi sees 86 fresh Covid cases, positivity rate drops further

NEW DELHI: The national capital recorded five more Covid-19 deaths and 86 new cases on Saturday, while the positivity rate stood at 0.11%. On Friday, the city recorded two Covid deaths and 93 new cases with a positivity rate of 0.13%.
The recoveries in Delhi again outnumbered the new cases with 106 patients recovering in the past 24 hours. With the fresh cases on Friday, the capital’s Covid-19 caseload increased to 14,34,460. The death toll stood at 24,988, an official in the state health department said, adding that the case fatality rate was 1.74%.
As many as 54,103 RT-PCR/CBNAAT/True Nat tests and 22,516 rapid antigen tests were conducted in the past 24 hours. A total of 2,17,09,756 tests had been done so far. The city currently has 738 containment zones. The bulletin issued on Saturday said 1,60,673 eligible beneficiaries were vaccinated in the past 24 hours and 82,18,548 had been inoculated so far.
At 28,395, Delhi, on April 20, had registered the biggest spike in new coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. It saw the highest ever positivity rate at 36% on April 26.
Amid a steady fall in daily cases in the national capital over the past few weeks, the number of beds dedicated for the coronavirus patients has reduced at various hospitals. The number of beds, including ICU ones, had reduced at Lok Nayak, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty, Burari and GTB hospitals, among other facilities.
At present Delhi has 15,067 Covid beds, of them only 634 are occupied. There are 305 patients under home isolation.
According to the order issued by the city health department, the de-escalation has to be carried out at 20 facilities, including hospitals and Covid care centres run by Delhi government.