Coronavirus outbreak: COVID-19 death toll in Delhi mounts to 176; cases cross 11,000 mark



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The coronavirus death toll in Delhi has risen to 176, while 534 new cases of COVID-19 infection reported Wednesday, the highest single-day spike here, they took the total of the city in the 11,000 mark, authorities said.

The previous maximum peak in the cool of the cases — 500 — was recorded on the 19th of May.

    Coronavirus outbreak: COVID-19 death toll in Delhi mounts to 176; cases cross 11,000 mark

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In a bulletin issued on Wednesday, the Delhi health department, said the number of dead by infection with the coronavirus has risen to 176, and the total number of cases has mounted to 11,088.

It is, however, added to the cumulative figures of death refers to deaths where the main cause of death was found to be COVID-19, according to the report of the Death of the Audit Committee on the basis of case sheets received from the various hospitals.

On Tuesday, the total number of cases stood at 10,554, including 166 deaths. With 534 of fresh cases, the total number of cases of coronavirus in Delhi has gone up to 11,088.

Meanwhile, in the midst of the growing coronavirus cases and the gradual decline in the number of containment in the areas of the national capital, the Delhi health department has directed all district magistrates to create such zones in their areas of jurisdiction as per the existing guidelines.

The total number of deceased patients, 92 were aged 60 years and over, representing more than 52 percent of the fatal victims here.

Forty-seven of them were aged between 50-59 years and 37 were less than 50 years, the bulletin said.

In the face of criticism “in the report” COVID-19 deaths, the Delhi government had issued a standard operating procedure (SOP) for hospitals and other health centres of the city on notification of deaths from coronavirus.

An order has also been issued regarding the mandatory notification of all deaths of COVID-19 positive person in any health center in new Delhi, in accordance with the Standard operating procedures issued previously.

An order has also been issued in the appointment of All India Institute of Ayurveda at Sarita Vihar, as an additional COVID Care Center, authorities said.

As many as 5,192 patients have recovered, discharged or migrate up now, while there are 5,720 of active cases, the Delhi health department, said.

A total of 1,50,282 COVID-19 tests have been conducted to date, ” he said.

Total number of COVID-19-positive patients under the home insulation is located in 2358, he said.

According to the Delhi Health Department bulletin, a total of 11,088 cases registered up to the moment, at least 1,722 they are admitted in various hospitals like LNJP Hospital, RML Hospital, Safdarjung Hospital and Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH) and the AIIMS Jhajjhar, adding 157 of them are in the ICU and the 23 on the fans. The number of areas of containment in Delhi has been reduced to 69.

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