85 new Covid-19 cases in Delhi, highest in 24 days

NEW DELHI: The capital recorded 85 new Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 0.12% in the last 24 hours, which is the highest in the last 24 days.
The last time the positivity rate was 0.12% was on July 8, which was also the last time fresh cases were higher than that of Sunday — 93.

For the second day in a row, Delhi recorded one fatality, taking the total toll to 25,054. Sunday was also the third consecutive day when the number of recovered patients was lower than new cases. In all, 72,447 tests, including 50,319 RT-PCR and 22,128 Rapid Antigen Tests, were conducted. With 83 patients recovering in the last 24 hours, the number of active cases stood at 582 on Sunday, the highest in more than a week.
The number of patients recuperating in home isolation was 172, while the figure was 167 last Sunday. The number of patients in hospitals, 521, was nearly 55% higher than a week ago, when 337 patients were in hospitals.
Out of 12,379 hospital beds reserved for Covid patients, 12,058 were vacant. Out of 3,682 Covid ICU beds, 3,548 were vacant at 10pm on Sunday, according to the Corona dashboard. This included 1,322 vacant ICU beds with ventilators out of 1,406.
After an exponential rise in cases and fatalities in April and May, the figures started dipping from June. On July 4, the number of active cases came down to 992, dipping below the 1,000-mark in over a year. On July 18, active cases dipped below the 600-mark at 592. Since then, the figure has been fluctuating. After dipping to 537 on July 26, it has risen again.
July recorded 2,077 cases with a daily average of 67, a dip of nearly 74% compared with 7,948 cases recorded in June with 265 cases on average per day. These figures, however, are just a fraction of the 16,230 new cases recorded in a day in April, which saw nearly 4.9 lakh cases. Average cases per day dipped to 8,932.5 in May, which saw almost 2.8 lakh cases, but fatalities increased during the month.
While March recorded 117 fatalities with a daily average of 3.7 deaths, April saw 5,120 fatalities with around 171 deaths every day. May recorded 8,090 deaths with 262 deaths a day on average, the highest for a single month till date. June, however, saw deaths come down considerably to 740, with a daily average of 24.7. The figures dipped drastically in July, with 76 fatalities being recorded at an average of 2.4 deaths per day.
Meanwhile, nearly 11,000 vaccine doses were administered on Sunday. A bulletin by Delhi government stated that 83,042 doses were administered on Saturday, of which 62,863 were the second doses. Delhi had five days of vaccine stocks left as of Sunday morning. The cumulative number of doses administered in the city has reached 1,01,04,760, of which 26,71,681 are the second doses.