Delhi on Sunday recorded the highest peak in a single day of 7,745 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and 77 related deaths, according to the latest health department bulletin, bringing the capital’s account to 438,529. even when the city is witnessing the third wave. of the pandemic.
According to the bulletin, there were 6,069 recoveries / registrations / migrations in the last 24 hours. There have been 389,683 recoveries / discharges / migrations and 6,989 deaths so far in the national capital. Active cases of coronavirus disease number 41,857.
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The Capital reported 6,953 cases of the infection on Saturday, according to the government’s Covid-19 bulletin, a day after the number of new infections in Delhi surpassed the 7,000 mark by that time. The number of active or currently infected cases surpassed the 40,000 mark for the first time in the city on the same day. On Saturday, Delhi reported 79 deaths due to the infection, the highest since July 4, when 81 deaths, some that had occurred before, were added to the city’s death toll. The total number of fatalities stood at 6,912.
Data from the Union health ministry shows that Delhi topped the list of 10 states that contributed 77% of new Covid-19 cases. The Delhi High Court had said earlier this week that Delhi was on track to become the “crown capital of the country”.
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Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain said on Saturday that the capital is reeling under the “third wave” of Covid-19 infection, but cases should start to decline soon. Jain also said that the Delhi government has filed a special license petition (SLP) in the Supreme Court after the high court did not allow 80% of ICU beds to be reserved for Covid-19 patients in various private hospitals. .
“Yesterday, we issued an order to add 1,185 beds for Covid patients in Delhi government hospitals and many private hospitals. Five hundred beds will be increased in city government-run Covid facilities, including 110 ICU beds,” Jain said.
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Earlier on Sunday, the minister had attributed the increase in the number of Covid-19 cases to aggressive testing and contact tracing. He also said that people’s laxity has been one of the main reasons behind the increase in new cases of the coronavirus disease. “Some people think that nothing will happen to them if they don’t wear a mask. You are wrong. Mask is the only drug for Covid-19 until a vaccine is developed, ”Jain added.
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