NEW DELHI: For the third day in a row, the national capital recorded Covid-19 cases above 1,000. Delhi on Friday recorded 1,245 new Covid-19 cases, the highest single-day rise in over a month. The positivity rate was recorded at 7.36. One death was was also recorded on Friday, taking the national capital’s death toll to 26,308.
Currently, the city has 3,844 active cases, up from 3,526 on Thursday, out of which a total of 2,355 Covid-19 patients are in home isolation. With new cases reported on Friday, Delhi's cumulative Covid-19 tally rose to 19,53,175.
Of the 9,409 beds reserved for the novel coronavirus patients in Delhi hospitals, only 257 were occupied as on Friday. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid health centres were lying vacant, the latest bulletin said. It added that there are 173 containment zones in the city at present.
The number of daily Covid-19 cases in Delhi had touched the record high of 28,867 on January 13 during the third wave of the pandemic. The city had recorded a positivity rate of 30.6 on January 14, the highest during the third wave of the pandemic.
