NEW DELHI: The city on Saturday recorded 414 new Covid cases — the lowest in over two-and-a-half months — and 60 fatalities, which pushed the death toll to 24,557.
The positivity rate dipped to 0.53%, revealed data shared by health department.
On Friday, the city recorded 523 cases with a positivity rate of 0.68% and 50 deaths.
On Thursday, it saw 487 cases and 45 fatalities.
This was the first time the daily death count went below the 50-mark since April 11, when the tally was 48.
The positivity rate on Thursday stood at 0.61% .
On March 16, Delhi had recorded 425 cases, which went up to 536 on March 17, said the data.
The infection rate, which had reached 36% in the last week of April, has now come down to below 1%.
Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day death counts had been spiralling.
Over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths were recorded on April 20, which went up to 306 fatalities on April 22.
On May 3, the city registered a record 448 deaths, the official health department data added.
However, the number of cases has shown a downward trend and the positivity rate, too, has been shrinking in the past several days.
The number of deaths per day has gone down in the past couple of days.
Delhi recorded 648 cases and 86 fatalities on Monday, 623 cases and 62 deaths on Tuesday, 576 cases and 103 fatalities on Wednesday.
On May 15, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal had said, “The virus is reducing slowly, and I hope it diminishes completely and does not rise again.
However, we are not going to become negligent in anyway.” A total of 77,694 tests, including 55,635 RT-PCR and 22,059 rapid antigen tests, were conducted in the past 24 hours, said the health bulletin.
The number of cumulative cases on Saturday stood at 14,28,863, while 13.9 lakh patients have recovered from the virus, it added.
The number of active cases decreased to 6,731 on Saturday from 8,060 a day before, while number in home isolation dipped to 2,855 from 3,813 on Friday, the bulletin said.
The number of containment zones dipped to 12,296 from 14,324 a day before, it added.
Delhi: At 60, Covid deaths rise a bit, but new cases still low
