Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said they have increased Covid testing to 60,000 a day. (Proceedings)
New Delhi:
Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain has said that the Aam Aadmi Party government in the national capital has increased testing three times to 60,000 tests per day, adding that this was the new strategy to combat the surge in cases of coronavirus.
“Delhi has increased testing to 60,000 per day. This is a big change in our containment strategy. We have done this to make sure we can track every positive case and contain the spread of the coronavirus; Delhi’s doubling rate is 50 days, “said Satyendar Jain. , who recently recovered from COVID-19.
The statement comes a day after Delhi reported 46 deaths from coronavirus, the highest since June 16, when the city recorded 93 deaths, in the context of Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s statement that The national capital has witnessed the second wave of COVID-19 and has now turned the corner.
“Deaths from covid should not be seen as a single-day figures, but rather as an average of 10 days because people generally do not die (from this disease) in one day,” Jain said, adding that the 10-day average of Delhi is 0.94 percent. . Its mortality rate is 1.94 percent.
Delhi recorded 3,372 new cases and 4,476 recoveries on Saturday as occupancy of Covid-only beds in hospitals was reduced. According to the state health minister, 6,840 Covid patients are currently admitted to hospitals. “This number was more than 7,100 a week ago,” Jain said, adding that Delhi’s positivity rate is 6.5 percent based on the seven-day average.
The city has been reporting fewer than 4,000 cases per day for the past week after a week of reporting more than 4,000 cases per day between September 15 and 19.
The sudden daily increase in cases to more than 4,000, which took place earlier this month, was the second wave of the disease, Kejriwal said.
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