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Delhi recorded 111 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the total number of positive Covid-19 cases to 2,625, including 869 people who had recovered from the disease and 54 who died from it. There were also 12 recoveries and one death on Saturday, according to the health bulletin published by the state government.
In a meaningful analysis, data from the health bulletin indicates that while 67% of all positive patients totaling 1,730 were younger than 50 years, followed by 18% of patients 60 years and older and 16% of patients between 50 and 59 years of age. For age, the death rate was highest for people 60 years of age and older, at 6.16%, followed by 3.54% for people in the 50-59 age range, and 0.58% for people younger than 50.
The comorbidity factor for victims reported so far was high for all age groups, approximately 90% for those under 50 and over 60 years, followed by 73.34% for people between 50 and 59 years .
Comorbidity is defined as the presence of one or more additional medical conditions with a primary condition (coronavirus in these cases). People with kidney, heart, sugar, and respiratory diseases have been found to be more likely to succumb to the coronavirus.
The data confirms the global trend that older people and people with comorbid conditions are at increased risk of losing their lives from the virus.
According to the health bulletin, 111 samples have tested positive in a total of almost 2,252 samples analyzed during the last 24 hours in the national capital. So far, a total of 35,519 tests have been carried out with about 3,700 results still pending.
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A total of 481 positive cases are admitted to various dedicated Covid hospitals in the city-state such as Saturday and 910 positive patients are admitted to seven dedicated Covid care centers and 90 were admitted to dedicated Covid health centers in the capital. 41 coronavirus patients are in the ICU, while eight are on ventilator support, according to the bulletin.
The total number of containment zones had increased to 95 on Saturday covering a population of 302,184.
The Delhi government has also issued instructions to non-Covid hospitals in the public and private sectors not to deny treatment or admission to any non-coronavirus patient if approached.
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