This month, 1,103 deaths have been reported in Delhi in the last fortnight, which means 73.5 daily deaths on average during the last 15 days (three deaths in an hour). In fact, this week has seen nearly 90 deaths every day and recorded the most deaths in a single day, 104 on Thursday and the second highest of 96 on Saturday. The total number of deaths from Covid-19 in Delhi stood at 7,614 on Sunday with an overall fatality rate of 1.5%.
Delhi reported its first case of Covid-19 on March 2. That month, two people succumbed to Covid-19, and the next day, nearly two deaths were reported per day. In May there were 414 deaths, 13.3 on average every day, but June, which saw the first big wave of Covid-19, recorded 2269 deaths, which is equivalent to 75.6 deaths on average every day. The death toll dropped to an average of 39.3 per day in July and 15.5 deaths per day in August as the Covid-19 chart descended.
However, the number of deaths from Covid-19 began to rise from September, which recorded 917 deaths or 30.5 daily deaths on average. This figure rose to 37 daily deaths on average in October.
“We are doing everything possible to save all lives and the best possible treatment is being provided, including plasma therapy. However, in many cases, patients arrive at hospitals at a stage where their condition has already deteriorated to severe, ”said a senior doctor at a Delhi government hospital.
On Sunday, 3,235 new cases were recorded in Delhi as only 21,098 tests were performed in the last 24 hours compared to the nearly 60,000 tests that are performed daily. While nearly 20,000 RT-PCR tests are being performed daily lately, the figure was 9,221 in the past 24 hours, according to the Delhi government health bulletin. The positivity rate rose to 15.3% on Sunday compared to 14.7% on Saturday.
The overall positivity rate in November is 12.8%, which represents a significant increase over the previous four months. The overall positivity rate in June was 21.1%, including some days when it exceeded 30%. In July, however, the overall positivity rate fell to 9.6%, which fell again to 7.1% in August, 7% in September, and 6.6% in October, even when the number of tests being carried out increased enormously.
The total number of positive cases recorded in Delhi to date is more than 4.8 lakh, while more than 4.3 lakh has been recovered, putting the recovery rate at 90.1%. The number of active cases on Sunday dropped to 39,990 from 44,456 on Saturday, but the number of containment zones increased from 4,288 to 4,358. Of the total active cases, 27,089 patients are recovering in home isolation and 8,741 are admitted to the hospital.
While 47.5% of Covid beds in hospitals are still vacant, the availability of ICU beds reserved for Covid-19 patients is declining with only 164 or 12.2% of the total 1,341 ICU beds with Fans available according to the Delhi Corona mobile app.
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