Delhi has reported more than 2.7 lakh of Covid cases so far (archive)
New Delhi:
The Additional District Magistrate of the Southwest District of Delhi has withdrawn an order that makes quarantine mandatory at Covid care facilities for infected people over 60 years of age. The order, issued on Sept. 21, said that people with comorbidities should enter coronavirus care facilities.
However, according to current guidelines throughout the national capital (these have been issued by the Delhi government), people over 60 who tested positive for Covid and had conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, heart disease , chronic lung / liver / kidney disease and brain vascular disease, home isolation was allowed after evaluation by the treating physician.
No official reason has been given for the withdrawal of the order, although sources have confirmed that it was returned because it was not in accordance with the protocols issued by both the Delhi government and the ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research, the body nodal of the center in this crisis).
Across Delhi there are 17,291 coronavirus patients in home isolation.
The national capital, which until recently was the second most affected by the pandemic, has registered more than 2.7 million cases. Of these, 5,235 are virus-related deaths and 29,228 are active cases.
The city reported 3,292 new cases and 42 deaths in the past 24 hours, government data showed Sunday night, a marginal change from the 3,372 cases and 46 deaths reported in the previous 24 hours.
Delhi has registered more than 3,000 new cases per day for nine of the last 10 days; there were 2,548 on September 21. Two of the last 10 saw more than 4,000 new cases and five saw more than 3,700.
Today, however, was the fourth day in a row that the number of new cases fell.
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said today that the death rate in the city over the past 10 days was less than one percent, claiming that an increase in testing had led to an increase in cases. He also said that the hospital bed occupancy rate had decreased in the past five days.
Last week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi had overcome a second wave of infections.
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