Delhi recorded 2,737 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, the city's highest single-day spike in 67 days, taking the infection tally to over 1.82 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 4,500, authorities said.
This is the third successive day in September in which over 2,000 new cases have been reported.
According to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department, 19 more fatalities have been reported in the city.
On June 28, the city had recorded 2,889 new cases of the infection, its highest single-day spike before September 3.
On Wednesday, 19 deaths were reported and the daily cases count was at 2,509. On September 1, the fresh cases count stood at 2,312.
The number of active cases currently stands at 17,692. It was 16,502 on Wednesday.
On June 23, the national capital had reported its highest single-day spike so far of 3,947 new cases.
The death toll from COVID-19 stood at 4,481 on Wednesday.
Thursday's bulletin said the death toll from the coronavirus infection has risen to 4,500 and the total number of cases to 1,82,306.
The positivity rate on Thursday stood at 8.3 per cent, while the recovery rate was over 87 per cent, as per the bulletin.
Also, the number of containment zones have jumped to 922 from 894 on Wednesday, according to the bulletin.
Meanwhile, Lt Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have held a meeting to discuss the pandemic situation in Delhi, specifically regarding testing strategy and to decide on prohibited or permitted activities during 'Unlock-4', the bulletin said.
Top officials, including Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev, the principal secretary (Home), the principal secretary (Health) and the divisional commissioner, also held a meeting with all deputy commissioners and chief district medical officers to review the situation, it said.
Delhi has seen an increase in the number of cases in the last several days.
On August 1, the city recorded 1,118 fresh cases, while for the next three days, the number of new infections reported in a single day stayed below the 1,000-mark.
From August 5 to August 9, the number of fresh COVID-19 cases reported in a single day again stayed above the 1,000-mark, only to come down to 707 on August 10.
The city saw less than 1,000 fresh cases reported in a day thrice between August 11 and August 22 -- August 13 (956), August 16 (652) and August 17 (787).
Since August 18, the daily count of new cases has again started going up again.
According to the bulletin, out of the total number of beds in COVID hospitals in the city, 9,663 are vacant.
Also, 3,005 beds in COVID care centres are occupied by persons under quarantine, including travellers who have returned via the Vande Bharat Mission and the bubble flights, it said.
According to the bulletin, 1,60,114 patients have recovered, been discharged or migrated so far. The number of people in home isolation stands at 9,135.
The number of Rapid Antigen Tests conducted on Thursday stands at 24,512, while that of RT-PCR, CBNAAT and True NAAT combined at 8,322, adding up to 32,834 tests in total, according to the bulletin.
The total number of tests done till date in Delhi stands at 16,69,352, and the number of tests done per million, as on Thursday, was 87,861, it said.