Delhi recorded 312 new coronavirus cases and three fresh fatalities on Friday which pushed the death toll in the city to 10,918, authorities said. This is also the highest number of daily cases reported in the city, at least since February beginning. The 312 new cases came out of 59,122 Covid-19 tests conducted on Thursday. At least 1,779 number of active cases were reported in the city, while the positivity rate rose to 0.53 per cent, as per the bulletin.
According to the bulletin, the total number of tests conducted the previous day included 43,460 RT-PCR tests and 22,972 rapid antigen tests, the bulletin said.
With this, the total number of people infected with life-threatening Covid-19 has reached 640494, according to the health bulletin issued by the Delhi Government.
Besides fall in active cases, the count of home isolation cases have also registered a sustained fall, dropping to below 863 -mark, indicating improvement in the Covid-19 situation, as per the bulletin.
It said that 14 beds in Covid care centres are occupied by persons under quarantine, including travellers who have returned by the Vande Bharat Mission and bubble flights.
From January 15-26, the daily figures ranged from, 148 on January 25 to 299 on January 16, according to official data. On February 9, 13, 17 and 25, and March 2 the death count recorded on all days was zero. On February 9, no fatality from coronavirus infection was registered in the national capital for the first time in that month, and after a gap of nearly nine months.
Delhi had recorded 94 fresh Covid-19 cases on February 16, the lowest in over nine months.