Coronavirus: COVID-19 cases have increased in Delhi in winter
New Delhi:
The national capital today reported 104 deaths due to coronavirus infection, the highest deaths due to the highly contagious virus in one day. The city reported 7,053 new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours. The city reported the latest highest deaths on June 16 when 93 people died from the virus.
The total number of coronavirus cases in Delhi is now 4,67,028. About 4.16 lakhs have been recovered. The daily positivity rate in the national capital is 11.71 percent, while the national average is 3.8 percent.
A report from the National Center for Disease Control on October 8 had projected that Delhi could see up to 15,000 cases of coronavirus in winter.
Air quality in the National Capital Region or NCR has also been a subject of great concern as winter approaches amid the coronavirus pandemic, with Delhi reporting thousands of COVID-19 cases every day.
Poor air quality in winter could have a major impact on health, as experts believe that people with comorbidities are at higher risk, as the virus is known to affect the respiratory system.
The center had asked the Delhi government to increase RT-PCR testing and improve its antigen-RT-PCR ratio, which currently stands at 77% antigen and 23% RT-PCR.
India reported 47,905 new cases of COVID-19 today, 8 percent more than on Wednesday. The country has up to 86.83 lakh of cases so far with 1.28,121 deaths.
More than 50 million coronavirus infections have been detected worldwide, according to a count from official sources compiled by the AFP news agency.
A total of more than 50,010,400 cases, including 1,251,980 deaths, have been recorded worldwide since the pandemic began in China in December last year.
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