Delhi COVID tally mounts to over 1.29 L, death count 3,806; CM says active cases spot improved

COVID-19 tally in national capital on Saturday mounted to over 1.29 lakh and death toll climbed to 3,806, even as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asserted that Delhi w stands at eighth spot in country in terms of active cases.

Sharing a list of states with active number of coronavirus cases on Twitter, he said situation was "b" a few days ago, and Delhi was at second spot in it.

He also said despite improvement re was " room for complacency" and urged people to take precautions.

"Delhi has reached 8th position in terms of number of active cases. Situation was b till a few days back. We were at 2nd position. However, re is room for complacency. Take precautions and stay safe," chief minister tweeted.

national capital recorded 1,142 fresh coronavirus cases on Saturday, taking city's tally to over 1.29 lakh, according to a health bulletin.

Meanwhile, Delhi Heath Minister Satyendar Jain said daily positivity rate of city currently stands at about 5 per cent.

positivity rate on Saturday was 5.5 per cent. It stood at 5.3 per cent on Friday, heath bulletin stated.

Also, recovery rate on Saturday was about 87 per cent, it said.

Twenty-nine fatalities have been recorded in last 24 hours, bulleting ded.

From July 11-19, fresh cases were being reported in range of 1,000-2,000 consecutively. number of fresh cases reported on July 19 stood at 1,211.

On June 20, fresh cases count dipped to 954, and it increased next day to 1,349.

Since Tuesday, number of fresh cases have been recorded in excess of 1,000 again.

However, active cases tally on Saturday was 12,657, down from 13,681, previous day.  On June 23, national capital h reported highest single-day spike of 3,947, till date.

death toll due to COVID-19 in Delhi stood at 3,777 on Friday, when 1,025 fresh cases were reported.

bulletin said death toll from coronavirus infection has risen to 3,806 and total number of cases climbed to 1,29,531.  Meanwhile, Delhi government on Saturday augmented total number of beds in COVID hospitals here by 450 with partial opening of Burari facility.

newly-set up facility in rth Delhi will have a total of 700 beds, out of which 450 beds have been me operational.

Chief Minister Kejriwal inaugurated facility via video conferencing and said this will help in fight against COVID-19.

According to bulletin, total number of beds in COVID hospitals stood at 15,475 out of which 12,340 are vacant.

After ding 450 more beds, number has grown to 15,925.

bulletin also said 2,787 of total of 9,244 beds at various COVID care centres are occupied by people under quarantine, including travellers who came by Vande Bharat Mission and bubble flights.

Kejriwal, after inaugurating facility, also said people of city, his government and Centre toger have "attained victory over COVID-19 but fight is t yet over".

Delhi Health Minister Jain, who was present at hospital during event, has been cautioning that vel coronavirus has an "unpredictable behaviour" and refore "we cant afford to lower our guard" even those daily cases count and positivity rate have come down.

According to bulletin, 1,13,068 patients have recovered, been discharged or migrated so far.

number of people in home isolation stands at 7,339.

number of Rapid Antigen Tests conducted on Saturday stood at 14,819 while RT-PCR, CBNAAT and True NAAT tests figures were 5,690, in all ding to 20,509, bulletin stated.

total number of tests done till date in Delhi stands at 9,29,244.

number of tests done per million, as on Saturday was 48,907, it said.

On Saturday, number of containment zones stood at 704.

Im credits: PTI