Delhi has reported 1,372 new Covid infecꩲtions and si🦹x deaths as the case positivity rate rose to 17.85 percent, the highest since January 21, according to health department data.
The figures pertain to August 7 (Sunday) as the governmentꩲ did not release the daily health bulletin on Monday.
On January 21, the positivity rate stood🀅 at 18🦂.04 per cent.
The new cases came out of 7♋,686 Covid-19 tests, the health department bulletin stated.
With the fresh infections and fatalities, Delhi's caseload increased to 19,70,899 and the death toll🌃 to 26,336, it said.
Delhi had Sunday reported 2,423 Covid-19 cas﷽es with a positivity rate of 14.97 per cent 💖and two deaths.
On Saturday, it recorded 2,311 Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 13.84 per cent and one faꦍtality.
On Friday, it logged 2,419 cases with a positivity rat🐼e of 12.95 per cent, while two people died due to the disease.
On Thursday, the▨ city saw 2,202 cases with a positivity rate of 11.84 per cent and four deaths.
On Wednesday, Delhi recorded 2,073 COVID-19 cases with🐻 a positivity rate of 11.64 per cent and💖 five fatalities.
On June 25, six people succumbed to the disease.
The number of act♕ive COVID-19 cases in Delhi stands at 7,484, down from 8,048the previous day. As many as 5,650 patients are in home isolation, the bulletin said.
Of the 9,40ꩵ7 beds reserved for COVID-19 patients in various Delhi hospitals, 490 were occupied. Beds at Covid care centres and Covid health centres were lying vacant, it said.
There are 242 containment zones in the city, it a꧅ddᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚed.
Delhi has reported a few cases of th𒐪e BA.4 a༒nd the BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron that are highly transmissible.
The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Delhi had touched the record high of 28,867 on January 13 this ♔year during the third wave of the pandemic.
The city had recౠorded a positivity rate of 30.6 per cent on January 14, the highest during the third wave of 🐽the pandemic.
