NEW DELHI: The capital recorded 134 coronavirus cases on Tuesday with a positivity rate of 0.20%, while eight more people succumbed to the disease.
According to the health bulletin issued by the state government, 263 cases of previous weeks were added on the ICMR portal by Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and associated Safdarjung Hospital on Monday.
Delhi had reported 89 Covid-19 cases on Monday with a positivity rate of 0.16% — both lowest this year so far, while 11 fatalities were recorded.
Tuesday’s eight fresh fatalities have pushed the death toll in the city to 24,933.
Delhi has recorded 14,32,778 coronavirus cases since the pandemic began.
Of this, over 14.05 lakh patients have recovered or have been discharged from the hospital so far.
In April third week, Delhi’s positivity rate — percentage of positive results from tests — had touched 36%, which was among the highest in the country.
Delhi reported its first peak in Covid-19 cases in June 2020.
The second and third peaks were reported last year in September and November, respectively.
The sero-survey report released in February 2021 showed more than 50% of the population had developed protective antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 during the three peaks.
Despite that, the city witnessed a fourth peak from April onward, which turned out to be the deadliest yet.
Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day deaths count started spiralling up, with over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths recorded on April 20; rising to 306 fatalities on April 22.
On May 3, the city registered a record 448 deaths.
However, the number of Covid cases have shown a downward trend and the positivity rate too has been shrinking in the last several days.
The number of deaths per day has also been showing a decline over the last few days.
There are a total 27,226 Covid-19 beds in the capital of which 25,973 (95%) were lying vacant on Tuesday.
Watch Covid-19: Delhi records 134 fresh cases, positivity rate now at 0.20%