Delhi reported 44 fresh Covid-19 cases and five deaths due to the disease on Friday, while the positivity rate dipped to 0.06 per cent, as per the health bulletin issued by the health department of the Delhi Government.
According to data shared by the health department the coronavirus death toll in the city now stands at 25,065, it showed. On Thursday, Delhi recorded 61 cases with a positivity rate of 0.08 per cent and two fatalities, as per the bulletin.
At least 79168 tests, including 55,106 RTPCR/CBNAAT/TrueNat tests, were conducted in the last 24 hours. There are 12374 available beds in hospitals, 300 are occupied as on Friday while the rest are vacant, it added.
No death due to Covid-19 was recorded in Delhi on Wednesday, while 67 cases of the infection were detected with a positivity rate of 0.09 per cent, it said.
This was the fifth time since the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic in the national capital when zero deaths had been logged in a day.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Thursday said the city Government was preparing for the worst-case scenario in anticipation of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic and working on setting up 37,000 dedicated beds for Covid-19 patients.
Despite a fall in daily cases in the last several days, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had recently cautioned that the chances of the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic were quite real, and had asserted that his government was preparing on a 'war-footing' to combat it.
The Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) recently had passed a colour-coded response action plan under which curbs would be implemented in accordance with the severity of the Covid situation here to deal with a possible third wave of the pandemic.