New Delhi: Health Minister Delhi Satyendar Jain on Sunday said that the government was conducting a Covid-19 test three times more than needed by the Indian Medical Research Board and notifying that the city would likely report nearly 17,000 Covid-19 cases when this .
Overcoming the press conference here, Jain said, “2,600 beds are occupied today.
Nearly 13,000 empty beds at Delhi Hospital.
Compared to the day before yesterday, the number of cases yesterday was lower.
There must be almost 17,000 cases based on the data we compilation.
We tested 3 times more than needed by the ICMR guidelines.
“Asked about the number of Covid-19 testing throughout the city, the Minister of Health said that nearly 60,000 to 1 Lakh test was being carried out every day for the past month.
“There were around 67,000 tests conducted yesterday.
I want to explain that a little test does not mean a lack of cases.
Light contact cases, without symptoms, or high-risk, everyone is tested.
Nearly 60,000 to 1 Lakh Test is being carried out every day for the past month , “he said.
Jain welcomed the guideline by ICMR who said that anyone who had made contact with Covid-infected patients did not need to take the Covid-19 test unless the person was in the ‘high-risk’ category based on age or comorbidity.
He said people who were sick were all tested.
“The ICMR guidelines are fine.
Those who are sick, are all being tested,” he said.
The Minister of Health further informs that receipts in hospitals are stagnant and are expected that the level of prospitibility will begin to decline over time.
“When reception at Stagnan Hospital, Pepsititists will begin to decline over time.
The level of progress will decrease over time when patients are treated in stagnant hospitals.
Most deaths are due to comorbidity,” he said.
Meanwhile, Delhi recorded a decline in the new Covid-19 case for the second consecutive day on Saturday with 20,718 cases of fresh infections reported in the national capital at the 30.64 percent pepony level which was the highest after May 1 last year.
A total of 67,624 tests covering 54,141 RPCR / CBNAAT / Tue NAT and 13,483 Quick antigen tests were carried out on January 15.
The decline in Covid-19 cases coincided with the number of tests in the last two days.
When Delhi, on January 13 this year, reported 28,867 new cases, the highest single-day surge since the beginning of the pandemic, 98,832 tests were carried out.
A day later on January 14, 79,578 tests were carried out where 24,383 was detected by Covid-19 positive.
India recorded 2,71,202 fresh Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the Department of Health and family welfare said on Saturday.
The daily level of peposititivity is 16.28 percent.