Delhi’s positivity rate rises to 27.77% from yesterday’s 23.8%. (file)
New Delhi:
Official data shows that 1,527 new Covid cases were reported in Delhi today, which is almost 33 per cent higher than yesterday. The positivity rate also increased to 27.77% from 23.8% yesterday.
Two more related deaths raised the capital city’s death toll to 26,549. According to the health bulletin, in one of these, Covid was the primary cause while for the other it was incidental.
The positive cases have been detected out of 5,499 tests conducted since yesterday. Besides this, 909 recoveries were also registered.
The city recorded 1,149 cases and one death yesterday, crossing the 1,000-mark for the first time in seven months.
A sharp jump was also seen in the figures across the country today. India recorded 10,158 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, as against 7,830 yesterday.
The country is witnessing a rapid rise in Covid cases driven by Omicron’s XBB.1.16 subvariant. But health ministry sources have insisted that there is no need to worry as the hospitalization rate will remain low.
Sources said the rise in infections would continue for the next 10-12 days and then subside.
In the endemic stage, an infection is confined to a particular area. But a pandemic is when the infection spreads over a large area or across the world.