Delhi on Sunday broke a 4-month streak to report zero casualties from Covid-19. The last time the national capital reported zero Covid-19 deaths was on March 2. The city also tested 71,546 samples on Sunday, of which only 51 returned a positive outcome — a positivity price of .07 per cent.
According to information from the Delhi government, 25,027 people today have succumbed to the deadly virus in the city so far. However, the tally excludes these who died at home, unable to get beds in hospital, through the second peak of the pandemic in April and May. The city’s cumulative case fatality ratio stands at 1.7 per cent. On May 3, Delhi recorded 448 deaths in a single day as the second wave of the pandemic wreaked havoc on the city’s overall health care infrastructure. Since then, nevertheless, the city has seen a sharp dip, each in instances and deaths. Delhi reported only six deaths through Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. One death each and every occurred on Thursday and Friday, even though 4 people today died on Saturday.
The city has reported fewer than hundred everyday caseload additions for just about 3 weeks now. At present, the city’s active caseload stands at 592, according to the Delhi government information. Of these, 330 people today are undergoing remedy in hospitals. Delhi had witnessed more than 28,000 fresh instances in a single day through the height of the second wave in April, with the positivity price hitting a whopping 36 per cent.
In a connected development, Lok Nayak Hospital Director Dr. Suresh Kumar paid homage to employees members at the hospital, the biggest Covid-19 facility in the national capital. He stated the hospital extended its congratulations to senior and junior residents, consultant employees members, and other healthcare workers for performing a excellent work, adding that they had been national heroes for saving thousands of lives.