The National Capital recorded 37 Covid-19 fatalities and 2,726 cases on Thursday, pushing the total death toll to 5653. The active cases tally stood at 22232.
According to a bulletin issued by the Delhi health department, the fresh cases came out of the 53322 tests. The number of Rapid-Antigen Tests conducted on Friday stood at 43197, while 10125 RT-PCR, CBNAAT and True NAAT tests were conducted.
The number of tests done per million, as on Thursday, was over 182936 lakh. On September 29, 48 deaths were reported, the highest number of fatalities recorded in a day since July 16, when the city saw 58 fatalities.
The bulletin said the total number of cases has climbed to 300833. The number of containment zones in Delhi jumped to 2,734. The positivity rate stood at 8.66 per cent, the bulletin said, adding the case fatality rate stood at 1.88 per cent.
Delhi government has significantly ramped up testing in the past few days.
The bulletin said out of the total number of 15833 beds in COVID hospitals 10563 is vacant. It said 979 beds in COVID care centres are occupied by persons under quarantine, including travellers who have returned by Vande Bharat Mission and bubble flights.