NEW DELHI: Delhi recorded 381 fresh Covid-19 cases on Sunday with a positivity rate of 0.50%, the seventh day in a row that the count has remained below 1%.
While both the numbers are the lowest in nearly three months, the 34 Covid-19 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours is the lowest in 59 days.
The last time the capital, which is battling its deadliest wave of Covid-19, recorded a positivity rate of less than 0.50% was on March 9, when it was 0.48%.
The fresh cases on Sunday were the lowest since March 10, when 370 cases were recorded.
Sunday’s 34 deaths are the lowest since April 8, when 24 people succumbed to the disease.
The overall toll on Sunday stood at 24,591, with a case fatality rate of 1.72%.
After snatching away more than 13,000 lives in April and May — on May 3, 448 fatalities were recorded, the highest in a single day since the outbreak, the count has been slowly dipping.
Although the number of fresh Covid-19 cases and the positivity rate have dipped significantly from the peak of 28,395 daily cases recorded on April 20 and the positivity rate of 36.24% recorded on April 22, the death toll remained high for a longer time.
The situation, however, is slowly improving with the last week recording 62.8 fatalities on average daily, a considerable dip from the 135.5 deaths recorded on average the week before.
The deadliest week of the current Covid-19 wave in the national capital, however, was between April 26 and May 2, which saw 388.3 fatalities on average every day.
The last week saw an average of around 522 new cases daily, a dip of 58% compared with 1,246 fresh cases on average every day between May 24 and May 30.
The overall positivity rate recorded in the previous week was 1.73% and this week saw it dipping to 0.71%.
The new cases recorded on Sunday were from 76,857 tests, including 55,786 RT-PCR and 21,071 rapid antigen tests.
With 1,189 patients recovering from the disease, the number of active cases stands at 5,889, which is a dip of 94% compared with the all-time high of 99,725 on April 28.
The number of patients being treated in home isolation in the city is 2,327, while 2,936 are admitted to hospitals.
Out of the 24,303 hospital beds, 21,367 are vacant, while 6,158 of the 6,332 beds in Covid care centres and 509 of the 606 beds in Covid health centres are vacant, as per the health bulletin of Delhi government.
Out of the 6,754 Covid ICU beds, 4,975 were vacant at 10pm on Sunday, according to the government’s online Corona dashboard.
This includes 1,460 vacant ICU beds with ventilators out of the total 2,564.