66 new cases; positivity rate 0.09%
New Delhi: The national Capital recorded 66 fresh COVID-19 cases, and one death due to the disease on Friday, while the positivity rate dropped to 0.09 per cent, according to data shared by the Health Department here.
The single new fatality has pushed the death toll in the city to 25,023, according to the latest bulletin.
On Thursday, Delhi had logged 72 cases and one death, with a positivity rate of 0.10 per cent.
On Wednesday, Delhi had recorded 77 cases and one death, while on Tuesday the daily infection tally was 76 with two deaths.
On February 16, ninety-four people were diagnosed Covid positive, while the daily tally was 96 on January 27, according to official figures.
The infection rate, which reached 36 per cent in the last week of April, has come down to 0.10 per cent now.
A total of 76,459 tests, including 52,223 RT-PCR tests and 24,236 rapid antigen tests, were conducted a day ago, according to the health bulletin on Friday.
The number of cumulative cases on Thursday stood at 14,35,419. Over 14 lakh patients have recovered from the virus.
The number of active cases decreased to 657 on Friday from 671 a day before, as per the bulletin.
The number of people under home isolation slightlly dropped to 228 from 230 on Thursday, while the number of containment zones dropped to 418 from 439 a day before, the bulletin said.
Meanwhile, the stock of anti-coronavirus vaccines in the national Capital will last for a day only, claimed an official bulletin issued on Friday.
The city had administered 33,186 vaccine doses on Thursday of which 21,189 were first jabs and 11,997 second.
According to official data, the total number of vaccine doses administered in Delhi so far has reached 91,86,905.
On Friday morning, Delhi had 2,27,600 doses of Covaxin and 1,13,900 doses of Covishield in its balance stock. This was after 1,04,150 doses of Covishield were added to the stock on Thursday.
According to the Delhi government, since Covaxin stock is "limited and have irregular delivery cycle" only 20 per cent of it can be used for first dose.
The vaccination programme is running at 1,374 centres with a capacity of administering 2,26,552 vaccine doses daily.
