Delhi recorded 3,734 fresh COVID-19 cases on Thursday with over 70,000 tests being conducted for the second consecutive day, even as the positivity rate dipped to 4.96 per cent, authorities said.
These fresh cases came out of the record 75,230 tests conducted the previous day, including 33,298 RT-PCR tests, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
Eighty-two fatalities were recorded, pushing the toll in the national capital to 9,424.
The active cases tally on Thursday dropped to 29,120 from 30,302 the previous day.
The bulletin said that the total number of cases rose to 5,82,058.