 "Delhi logs 781 new Covid cases, two deaths; positivity rate at 6.4%")
Delhi reported 781 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 6.40 per cent along with two fatalities, according to data shared by the health department here on Tuesday.
This is the fourth consecutive day that the positivity rate has been recorded above five per cent. With the fresh infections, the case tally in the national capital rose to 19,49,736, while the death toll mounted to 26,305.
The number of tests conducted the previous day was 12,209.
The number of active cases of the disease in Delhi now stands at 2,862, up from 2,548 the previous day.
As many as 1,914 COVID-19 patients are under home isolation, the data added.
Delhi on Monday had logged 463 coronavirus cases and two fatalities due to the disease as the positivity rate climbed to 8.18 per cent, highest in over a month, according to city health department data.
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On June 20, 10.1 per cent of the total samples tested had turned out Covid positive.
On Sunday, Delhi logged 729 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 5.57 per cent and two fatalities.
On Saturday, the city saw 738 cases and one death due to the disease. The positivity stood at 5.04 per cent.
On Friday, it recorded 712 coronavirus cases with a positivity rate of 4.47 per cent and one death.
On Thursday, the national capital logged 649 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 4.06 per cent and one death.
Of 9,451 beds for COVID-19 patients in Delhi hospitals, only 188 were occupied on Tuesday. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid health centres were lying vacant, the latest bulletin said.
There are 166 containment zones in the city at present, it added.
Delhi has reported a few cases of the BA.4 and the BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, which are highly transmissible, but experts have asked people not to panic as these sub-variants do not cause severe infection.
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 per cent on January 14, the highest during the third wave of the pandemic.
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