Delhi o♌n Sunday logged 699 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 21.15 per cent, according to data shared b🐻y the city government's health department.
Four people suffering from COVID-19 died in the city.𓃲 However, the health bulletin stated that COVID-19 was the primary cause of death in just 🍰one case.
With the fresh cases, Delhᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚi's COVID-19 tally has risen to 20,14,637. The death toll stands at 26,540, the bulletin stated.
Delhi saw✤ 535 COVID-19 cases on Saturday with a positivity rate of 23.05 per ce🌟nt.
The capital logged 733 cases -- the highest in more than seven mont🐷hs -- on Friday with a positivity rate of 19.93 per ceওnt.
On Thursday, 🐲606 cases were recorded with a positivity rate of 16.98 per cent, and one fatality.
On Wednesday, Delhi added 509 cases with a positivity rate of 26.54 per cent, the highest in nearly 15 months. In 𓂃January last year🍨, the positivity rate had touched the 30-per cent mark.
According to the bulletin, 3,305 COVID-19 tests wer🐎e conducted in Delhi on Saturday.
Delhi has witnessed a spurt in the number of fresh Covid infections over the last fortnight amid a sharp rise in H3N2 influenza ❀cases in the country.
𓆉The number of fresh cases had dropped to zero on January 16, the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic.
The Health Department on Sunday said 136 ofꩵ the 7,989 beds in dedi☂cated Covid hospitals in the city are occupied while 1,634 patients are in home isolation.
The number of active cases current꧋ly stan🍰ds at 2,460, it added.
🐽Amid a gradual increase in the number of Covid cases in Delhi, medical experts say the new XBB.1.16 variant of the virus could be driving the surge.
However, they 🐼maintained that there is no need to panic and people should follow Covid-appropriate behaviour and get booster shots of vaccines.
They also ꦯsaid this rise in the number of cases could be the result of more people getting themselves tested for Covid as a precaution when they actually get infected with the influ⛎enza virus and develop fever and related symptoms.
The Indian Council of Medical Research has said the rise in the number ෴of influenza cases is due to the Influenza A sub-type H3N2.
The H3N2 virus is leading to more hospitalisation than the other subtypes. The symptoms incluꦕde a runny nose, persistent cough and fever.
- With PTI Input
