Rai is the third minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government to have contracted the virus. Earlier, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Health Minister Satyendar Jain had been infected with coronavirus.
Meanwhile, Delhi recorded five,246 fresh COVID-19 circumstances in a day as the positivity price declined to eight.49 per cent, the lowest due to the fact October 28, although 99 much more fatalities pushed the city’s death toll to eight,720 on Wednesday. It was just after 5 days that the national capital recorded single-day death beneath one hundred.
As a lot of as 61,778 tests, which includes 26,080 RT-PCR ones — the highest till date for the city — and 35,698 speedy antigen tests, had been carried out the preceding day for the detection of COVID-19, according to a bulletin by the Delhi overall health division on Wednesday.
According to the bulletin, the total quantity of coronavirus circumstances climbed to five,45,787 on Wednesday, of which four,98,780 have recovered. The tally of active circumstances in Delhi was 38,287 down from 38,501 on Tuesday.
(Inputs from PTI)