India News | Delhi Reports 29 Fresh Covid Cases
Get latest articles and stories on India at LatestLY. Delhi on Tuesday logged 29 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.62 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department.
New Delhi, May 16 (PTI) Delhi on Tuesday logged 29 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.62 per cent, according to data shared by the city government's health department.
The city also reported one fatality due to the viral infection, the data showed.
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With the fresh infections, the national capital's case tally climbed to 20,40,497. The death toll is now 26,652, the health department said in its bulletin.
No bulletin was issued on Monday.
Delhi on Sunday recorded 26 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.49 per cent. The health department did not issue a health bulletin on Saturday.
The city witnessed 43 cases with a positivity rate of 2.07 per cent and two deaths on Friday, while it had logged same number of new cases with a positivity rate of 1.8 per cent a day before.
The city recorded 75 cases with a positivity rate of 3.43 per cent and one death on Wednesday.
The fresh cases emerged from 1,792 tests conducted the previous day, according to Tuesday's bulletin.
The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 307, of which 240 patients are in home isolation, the bulletin said.
Only 52 of the 7,976 Covid beds in various city hospitals are occupied, it said.
The number of daily cases had dropped to zero in Delhi on January 16 for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, the city witnessed a spurt in cases last month.
On April 11, mock drills were conducted in Delhi hospitals to ascertain their preparedness to deal with any eventuality.
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