New Delhi: Delhi recorded 373 fresh coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 2.15% and one death due to the infection within 24 hours, according to data shared by the city’s health department on Tuesday.
With this, the national capital’s Covid-19 tally has gone up to 19,06,896 and the death toll due to the viral disease has gone up to 26,210.
The department said in its latest bulletin that a total of 17,371 COVID tests were conducted in the city on Monday.
Delhi on Monday reported 212 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death due to the disease, while the positivity rate stood at 2.42%.
On Sunday, the national capital witnessed 357 fresh Covid cases with a positivity rate of 1.83%.
It recorded 442 coronavirus cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of 2.02 per cent.
On Friday, the national capital reported 445 fresh Covid cases while the positivity rate stood at 2.04%.
On Thursday, 403 fresh cases of infection were reported and one death occurred with a positivity rate of 1.76 percent.
During the third wave of the pandemic, the number of daily COVID cases in Delhi touched a record high of 28,867 on January 13.
The city had recorded a COVID positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the third wave of the pandemic.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Delhi has gone up to 1,603, from 1,486 a day earlier, the bulletin said.
A total of 1,165 patients are in home isolation, down from 1,208 the previous day, it said, adding that there are 521 containment zones, an increase from 362 on Monday.
The bulletin said that there are 9,595 beds for Covid patients in hospitals in the city and 83 of them are occupied.
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