Highest rise in Delhi’s Kovid cases in 201 days, more restrictions likely Delhi News – Times of India

New Delhi: Delhi recorded 331 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, which is the biggest single-day increase in 201 days apart from one Covid-19 death in the last 24 hours.
At 0.68%, the test positivity rate (TPR) remained above 0.5% for the second day running, meeting the criteria for Level 1 (Yellow Alert) of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) for COVID restrictions.
Sources in the Delhi government said that a decision on setting up the first level of GRAP will be taken in the meeting on Tuesday. Under this level the plan calls for closure of schools, cinema halls, banquet halls etc., shops operating on odd-even basis and public transport running with limited capacity.
Week-on-week increase in Kovid-19 cases in the capital is close to 2.5 times
The last time Delhi recorded more cases in a day was on June 9, when 337 cases were reported with a positivity rate of 0.43%. The positivity rate (0.68%) on Monday was the highest since June 4. A positivity rate of 0.55% was recorded on Sunday.
The city is witnessing a sharp rise in the number of fresh Covid-19 cases, with the last three days also registering the highest single-day spike in the last six months. During the week ending Sunday, an increase of 2.5 times (141%) was registered in the cases of Kovid in the last seven days. Delhi reported 290 new cases on Sunday, 249 on Saturday and 180 on Friday, each with the highest single-day spike so far in the last six months.
With the number of patients recovering from the disease rising to 14, the number of active cases in the city rose to 1,289 from 1,103 active cases on Sunday. With 63 new cases being reported on Monday, Delhi is at the second place in the country in terms of Omicron infection. This is believed to be the reason behind the jump in cases.
Out of the total number of Covid-19 patients, 266 are being treated at various hospitals in the city and 692 patients are currently in home isolation, as against 583 on Sunday.
With one Covid-19 fatality reported on Monday, the total toll from the virus in Delhi stands at 25,106, with a fatality rate of 1.74%.
The new cases reported in the last 24 hours are 46,549 for RTPCR/CBNAAT/True Net test and 2,040 for rapid antigen test. With the new cases, the number of coronavirus infections in the city has reached 14,43,683. Out of this, more than 14.17 lakh patients have recovered from the disease, said the health department’s bulletin.
Of the total 8,905 hospital beds reserved for Covid-19 patients, 8,639 are currently vacant. According to the Delhi government’s online Corona Dashboard, out of 2,766 COVID ICU beds in Delhi, 2,728 were vacant at 10 pm on Monday, including 1,367 vacant ICU beds with ventilators (out of a total of 1,379).