After 67 days of struggle, COVID-19 cases recorded in 24 hours in the national capital have come in three digits, with 956 new cases reported in the last 24 houses in the city. It is the lowest single day since the second wave of the pandemic began informed CM Arvind Kejriwal.
“Around 900 COVID-19 cases have been reported in Delhi in the last 24 hours. This is for the first time (during second wave) that we have reported cases below 1,000,” exulted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
CM Kejriwal stressed that as daily cases of Covid-19 decline, the government will loosen the restrictions and allow more activities to open up in the city.
The city had conducted 80,473 tests in the last 24 hours, out of which 956 turned out to be COVID positive. Which means that the city’s positivity rate further decreased to 1.19%. The last time the city had recorded less than 1,000 cases was on March 22, when there were 888 new cases and a positivity rate of 1.32%.
However, while the number of deaths recorded then was 7, the number continued to remain high at 122 on Saturday.
Over the last few days, the numbers have fallen significantly and the positivity rate too has been shrinking below record levels. On Friday, the city recorded 1141 new cases of Covid-19—it was the third consecutive day when the number was 1500.
On Thursday, 1072 cases of the coronavirus disease and 117 related deaths were recorded, while the positivity rate dipped to 1.53 per cent. On Friday, the positivity rate stood at 1.59 per cent.
As per Health Ministry data, Delhi has recorded nearly 24 thousand deaths since the pandemic began in 2020, even as 13,85,158 people have recovered.
Punjab also reported less than 1000 new cases of COVID-19
It is not just Delhl, Punjab has also reported less than 1,000 new cases of Covid infection each on five days in the past one week making health authorities in the state claim that a downslide has begun after the peak last month.