Delhi reported 72 fresh Covid-19 cases and one death due to the disease on Saturday, while the positivity rate dipped to 0.10 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 25,066, it showed. On Friday, Delhi recorded 44 cases with a positivity rate of 0.06 per cent and two fatalities, as per the bulletin.
At least 73681tests, including 49,913 RTPCR/CBNAAT/TrueNat tests, were conducted in the last 24 hours. There are 12328 available beds in hospitals, 316 are occupied as on Saturday while the rest are vacant, it added.
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.