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Delhi reports 337 new Covid-19 cases, 36 deaths in last 24 hours, active caseload at 4,500
Active caseload continued to decline and currently stands at 4,511, a decrease of 451 cases from the 4,962 reported previously on Tuesday.
With 337 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) on Wednesday, cumulative positive cases in Delhi went up to 1,430,128, a bulletin from the health department showed. The daily positivity rate in the city stood at 0.46%, according to the bulletin. Also, 36 patients succumbed to the infection on the day taking the death toll to 24,704.
Active caseload continued to decline and currently stands at 4,511, a decrease of 451 cases from the 4,962 reported previously on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, daily new recoveries continued to remain over new infections. As many as 752 patients were discharged in the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative recoveries to 1,400,913, the data from the bulletin also showed.
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Daily new infections have been witnessing a decreasing trend in Delhi since early May, however, the number of cases have seen a slight increase in the past two days. After reporting 231 new cases on June 7 (Monday), the city saw 316 new cases and 337 new cases on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, each slightly higher than the previous. The active caseload, meanwhile, has been decreasing steadily.
Medical workers in the city tested 73,241 samples for the disease in the last 24 hours. This includes 52,194 RTPCR, CBNAAT, TrueNat tests and 21,047 Rapid Antigen Tests. So far, 19,967,045 tests have been conducted in the city and the test per million count stands at 1,050,897. The cumulative positivity rate was recorded at 7.16% and the case fatality rate (CFR) at 1.73%, the bulletin showed.
As many as 48,446 beneficiaries received a dose of the vaccine in the last 24 hours, of whom, 25,852 received a first dose and 22,594 received a second. So far, 5,781,145 people have been immunised with at least one shot in the national capital.
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