Delhi reported 6,500 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, the lowest since April 7, the day when the city reported 5,506 cases in a day.
The positivity rate – the proportion of samples tested that return positive for Covid-19 – continued its sharp decline to 11 per cent, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today.
The Capital has been witnessing a sharp decline in daily positive cases and positivity rates for around two weeks.
During the peak of the second wave of the Covid pandemic, on April 20, Delhi’s daily positive cases were reported at 28,395, while the highest daily positivity rate was 36 per cent on April 22.
Yesterday, the city had reported 8,506 cases in a day, which was the first time Delhi’s daily positive case fell below 10k since April 10. On May 13, it had registered 10,489 new cases. Before that, the number of cases on May 12 were 13,287, 12,481 on May 11, 12,651 on May 10 and 13,336 on May 9, respectively.
Similarly, the daily positivity rate has declined over the last few days in the city. On May 14, Delhi’s positivity rate was reported at 12.40 per cent. Before that the positivity rate was reported at 14.24 per cent on May 13, 17.03 per cent on May 12, 17.76 per cent on May 11, 19.10 per cent on May 10 and 21.67 per cent on May 9.
Kejriwal said today that in the last 15 days, the Delhi government had put in place around 1,000 new ICU beds for Covid patients. “I would like to thank all medical staff, health officials, engineers and others who relentlessly worked to establish new Covid care centres which have added 1,000 new ICU beds in the last 15 days,” he added.
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