NEW DELHI: The national capital saw 89 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the second day in a row that the figure remained below 90, with a positivity rate of 0.12%.
The number of Covid-19 patients who recovered or got discharged in the last 24 hours was 285, more than three times the number of fresh cases.
As a result, the number of active Covid cases has gone down to 1,568.
The total number of Covid-19 cases this month stood at 7,694 till Sunday, with an average of around 285 cases a day with an overall positivity rate of 0.38% from an average of about 73,170 tests a day.
This month has seen 728 Covid-19 fatalities till Sunday, an average of around 27 deaths a day.
The numbers are a huge dip from the 2,76,907 Covid-19 cases recorded last month and 4,86,903 cases recorded in April.
The number of cases this month has seen a drastic fall from the nearly eight lakh cases seen in the last two months when the capital battled its worst wave of Covid-19.
The month of May saw 8,932.5 cases on average daily and a total 8,090 fatalities, with nearly 262 average deaths per day.
The month saw an overall positivity rate of 12.87% from around 69,371 average tests per day.
April saw a massive 16,230 Covid-19 cases a day on average and a total of 5,120 fatalities, nearly 171 deaths on average a day.
Around 85,871 Covid tests were carried out on average a day with an overall positivity rate of 18.90%.
April saw the peak of 28,395 Covid-19 cases in a single day, recorded on April 20 and a positivity rate of 36.24% recorded on April 22.
The number of people succumbing to the disease has been very high in the months of April and May, with May 3 recording 448 fatalities, the highest in a single day since the outbreak.
The situation, however, has improved massively since then, but the Delhi government is not taking any chances keeping in mind the likely risk of a third wave of Covid-19 cases and also the new Delta Plus variant.
The new cases recorded on Sunday were from 74,198 tests, including 54,297 RT-PCR and 19,901 via rapid antigen tests.
The capital also recorded four Covid-19 fatalities on Sunday, taking the toll to 24,965, with a case Fatality Rate of 1.74%.
The number of patients recuperating in home isolation as on Sunday is 478, down from 600 last Sunday.
A total 989 patients are admitted in hospitals and out of the total 23,692 hospital beds, 22,703 are vacant.
Out of the total 6,635 Covid ICU beds in Delhi, 6,104 were vacant at 10 pm on Sunday, according to the Delhi government’s online Corona dashboard, including 2,107 vacant ICU beds with ventilators out of a total 2,503.