NEW DELHI: The capital reported 1,254 fresh cases on Covid-19 on Wednesday — the highest in over three months, while six more people succumbed to the disease, the health department said. This is the highest number of single-day cases since December 18 when 1,418 people tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The city had recorded 1,101 Covid cases on Tuesday. It was the first time since December 24 that the number of cases had crossed the 1,000 mark.
The active cases on Wednesday rose to 4,890 from 4,411 a day ago. The positivity rate rose to 1.52%, the health bulletin stated. The Covid positivity rate in Delhi had been 1.31% on Tuesday.
The new infections pushed the total tally to 6,51,227, of which over 6.35 lakh patients have recovered from the virus.
Six more people died from the viral infection on Wednesday, taking the number of fatalities to 10,973. A total of 82,331 tests, including 52,224 RT-PCR tests, were conducted in the past twenty-four hours, the bulletin said.
The number of people under home isolation rose to 2,560 from 2,316 a day ago. Containment zones in the city, meanwhile, rose to 976 from 871 on Tuesday. The total number of cases in Delhi on January 1 was over 6.25 lak
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