Delhi recorded a positivity charge of lower than 3% for the second consecutive day on Monday, with 1,550 Kovid-19 instances reported within the metropolis within the final 24 hours.
The positivity charge on Monday was 2.52%, marginally larger than on Sunday, which was 2.42%. A complete of 61,506 folks had been examined within the final 24 hours, of which 1,550 examined constructive.
Since May 21, the town has been reporting a positivity charge under 5%, progressively lowering for the previous two days, from 4.56% to three.58%, down from 3%.
At the height of the continued wave, Delhi noticed its highest positivity charge at 36.24 p.c on 22 April a month in the past and greater than 28,000 new instances a day on 20 April. However, regardless of the decline in positivity charges, the variety of reported every day deaths stays excessive — there have been 207 deaths on Monday.
The drop within the variety of instances has additionally opened up the provision of COVID ICU beds within the metropolis which had been earlier in severely quick provide throughout this wave.
According to the federal government’s ‘Corona Dashboard’, there are presently 2553 ICU beds obtainable within the metropolis. However, all ICU beds proceed to be occupied in some hospitals with a lot of such beds, comparable to AIIMS Jhajjar, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, BLK Hospital and Fortis Shalimar Bagh.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
