Delhi recorded 3,567 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday, while ten more people died due to the infection, taking the death toll to 11,060.
The positivity rate also had mounted to 4.48 per cent from 4.11 per cent a day before amid a massive surge in cases in the span of the last few weeks.
According to the health bulletin issued by the health department of the Delhi Government, the number of active cases rose to 12,647 from 11,994 a day before. A total of 79,617 tests, including 57,296 RT-PCR tests, were conducted a day ago, the bulletin said.
The number of people under home isolation rose to 6,569 from 6,106 a day ago. The containment zones rose to 2,618 from 2,338 on Friday, it said.
With the new infections, the number of cumulative cases rose to 6,72,381. The city had reported 3,594 cases on Friday, the highest daily count this year. Delhi had reported 2,790 cases on Thursday, 1,819 on Wednesday, 992 on Tuesday, 1,904 cases on Monday and 1,881 cases on Sunday. It had reported 1,558 cases on Saturday, 1,534 cases last Friday, 1,515 cases last Thursday, 1,254 cases a day before that and 1,101 cases last Tuesday, when it had crossed the 1,000-mark for the first time since December 24.
The number of cumulative cases as on January 1 had stood at over 6.25 lakh and the total fatalities were 10,557. The number of daily cases had started to come down in February. On February 26, the month's highest daily count of 256 cases was recorded.
However, the daily cases began to rise again in March and have been steadily increasing since then.
Kejriwal had said on Friday that Delhi is encountering the fourth wave of COVID-19 infection but there is no need of imposing lockdown.
The chief minister urged the Centre to allow states to undertake mass-level vaccination. He had also suggested that the Centre should lift the age bar of 45 years for vaccination to pave the way for mass-level inoculation.Kejriwal also appealed to the people to wear face masks, maintain social distancing and regularly wash hands to prevent the spread of the virus.