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Delhi records 50 new Covid cases, positivity rate remains low | Delhi News - Net4News

Representative image NEW DELHI: The national capital recorded 50 new Covid-19 cases and one fresh fatality on Saturday. The positivity rate stood at 0.07%, stated data shared by state health department. According to the data, 70,512 tests were conducted in the past 24 hours, of which 47,010 were RT-PCR/CBNAAT/True Nat tests, while the rest were rapid antigen tests. With the new cases, Delhi's Covid tally has climbed to 14,37,038, of which 14,11,491 patients have either recovered or been discharged from the hospital. The death toll stands at 25,069, while the city has 478 active cases. On April 20, Delhi had reported 28,395 cases, the highest in the city since the beginning of the pandemic. On April 22, the case positivity rate was 36.2% -the highest so far. At 448, the maximum deaths were reported on May 3. Delhi government has been ramping up health infrastructure to prevent a repeat of the crisis witnessed during the peak of the second wave in April-May. Several steps have been taken to increase the number of hospital beds to accommodate up to 37,000 cases a day and to become self-reliant in terms of oxygen supply. FacebookTwitterLinkedinEMail Source link Read the full article