Active cases up again

New Delhi: Delhi reported 1,076 COVID-19 cases and 11 deaths on Wednesday, the lowest daily fatality count in more than a month, authorities said, adding that the city's caseload has surpassed 1.4 lakh and the death toll has risen to 4,044.

The active cases tally on Wednesday rose to 10,072, from 9,897 on Tuesday. The daily cases count had dipped to 674 and 12 deaths were recorded on Tuesday.

On June 27, the active cases tally stood at 28,329. Since then, the count had been gradually falling until August 4, when it had slipped below the 10,000-mark.

On June 9, initially, seven fatalities were reported but the death figures for the month were revised multiple times by authorities. On July 21, the active cases tally was 15,288. On June 23, the national capital had reported the highest single-day spike of 3,947.

The Wednesday bulletin said the total number of cases climbed to 1,40,232 and the positivity rate stood at 6.4 per cent while the recovery rate was nearly 90 per cent.

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday took a meeting to review the data on COVID-19 mortality rate at government and private hospitals. Chief Secretary Vijay Dev chaired another meeting on formulating an augmented surveillance strategy, the bulletin said.

Of the total number of beds in COVID hospitals, 10,583 are vacant, it added.

Also, 2,884 beds in COVID Care Centres are occupied by persons under quarantine, including travellers who have returned by Vande Bharat Mission and bubble flights, the Delhi government said. According to the bulletin, 1,26,116 patients have recovered, been discharged or migrated. The number of people in home isolation stands at 5,227.

The number of Rapid Antigen Tests conducted on Wednesday stood at 11,915 while the RT-PCR, CBNAAT and True NAAT test figures were 4,870, in all adding to 16,785 tests in the last 24 hours.

The total number of tests done to date in Delhi stands at 10,99,882. The number of tests done per million, as on Wednesday, was 57,888, it said.

On Wednesday, the number of containment zones stood at 481.