Slump in Covid positivity rate in last 7 days
The Covid-19 positivity rate in the national capital has slumped in the last one week, dropping from 8.65 per cent on November 26 to 5 per cent on December 2, even as the count of containment zones has grown steadily in the same period, according to official data. In this duration, nearly 100 containment zones have been added each day, rising to 5,772 on Wednesday
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New Delhi: The Covid-19 positivity rate in the national capital has slumped in the last one week, dropping from 8.65 per cent on November 26 to 5 per cent on December 2, even as the count of containment zones has grown steadily in the same period, according to official data. In this duration, nearly 100 containment zones have been added each day, rising to 5,772 on Wednesday.
Delhi recorded 3,944 fresh Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, taking the tally to over 5.78 lakh, while 82 new fatalities pushed the toll to 9,342. These fresh cases came out of a record 78,949 tests conducted on Tuesday, including 36,370 RT-PCR tests, while the positivity rate dropped to 5 per cent, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
This is the highest number of tests conducted in a day till date and also the first time when over 70,000 tests were done.
