Photos: Covid-19 toll crosses 25k mark in Delhi

Delhi recorded 79 new Covid-19 cases at a positivity rate of 0.11% and four fatalities, according to a health bulletin on July 6. With this, the death toll for the national capital now stands at 25,001.

Published on: Jul 07, 2021 4:23 PM IST

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A resident looks out from her home during a door-to-door drive to register people for vaccination against Covid-19 in New Delhi on July 6. Over 25,000 people in the capital have died of Covid-19 since the outbreak of the infection in March last year, government records showed, after the state added four fatalities to the city’s toll on July 6. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP)

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A health worker attending to Covid-19 patient at a Covid Care Centre in New Delhi on July 4. Most of the 25,001 deaths in the city so far were recorded in just two months, between April and May, as a fourth wave of infections ravaged the city, and left health care infrastructure teetering on the brink of collapse. (Kamal Kishore / PTI)

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An influx of people at Sadar Bazar wholesale market in New Delhi on July 5. The city, which has bounced back from a brutal fourth wave, added only 79 fresh infections on July 6, with just 0.11% of those sampled testing positive. Over the past week, Delhi has added an average of 85 new cases every day, and the positivity rate has been around the 0.1% mark - the lowest since the pandemic struck last year. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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Shops in Sadar Bazar's Rui Mandi were asked to close down due to Covid-19 protocol violations in New Delhi on July 6. As a precautionary measure, a number of markets across the city have had to be temporary shut over the last seven days owing to a crackdown for violation of protocols. (Amal KS / HT Photo)

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A vendor wearing a facemask as a preventive measure against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, opens his shop at a market in New Delhi on July 5. Experts HT spoke to have said that a fifth wave in Delhi is unlikely for “at least six months”. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP)

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Men exercising in a gym in New Delhi on July 28 after relaxations to Covid-19 curbs allowed for their reopening. “Delta variant was so infectious that a high proportion of people in Delhi have been exposed, protecting them from infection for 6-10 months. We’re also increasing vaccination; more people will get immunity,” said Dr Puneet Mishra, professor of community medicine at AIIMS. (Sanjeev Verma / HT Photo)

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A volunteer (L) registers residents during a door-to-door drive to register people for vaccination against Covid-19 in New Delhi on July 6. Delhi was adding around 20,000 new cases each day till the first week of May, after which cases fell, on the back of a lockdown imposed in the capital from April 19. (Sajjad Hussain / AFP)

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A health worker administering a Covid-19 vaccine to a woman at a vaccination centre in Nand Nagri, New Delhi on June 30. So far, 1.74% of those who contracted the infection in Delhi have died, slightly higher than the national average of 1.3%, according to government data. (Sanchit Khanna / HT Photo)