Delhi records 496 COVID-19 cases highest since June 4 positivity rate rises to 089 pc
New Delhi Dec 28 PTI The national capital on Tuesday registered a massive spike in daily COVID-19 with 496 fresh cases the highest since June 4 while the positivity rate also rose to 089 per cent along with one fatality due to coronavirus in the cityThe total number of cases of new Omicron variant of COVID-19 recorded in Delhi has also mounted to 165There were 67 Omicron cases in the national capital on FridayAccording to the health department 120 travellers who tested positive on their arrival at the IGI Airport have been admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours Their samples would be sent for genome sequencingThe 50 per cent jump in daily COVID-19 cases was reported hours after a Yellow alert was implemented in the national capital under which schools colleges cinemas and gyms will remain closed shops dealing in non-essential items will open on odd-even basis and metro trains will run with 50 per cent of seating capacityThe Delhi Disaster Management Authority also extended the timing of the night curfew imposed from Monday night by an hour and it will now begin at 10 pm and will remain till 5 amIn view of a rise in Omicron cases the authorities in Delhi had begun genome sequencing of samples of daily COVID-19 cases on December 22 to ascertain if the new variant has spread in the communityEarlier in the day officials at LNJP said 56 out of 70 Omicron patients have been discharged Three of the patients did not have travel history but had come in contact with those who were infected at a wedding in Rajasthan These can be called sporadic cases they saidAccording to officials at Batra Hospital five Omicron patients are admitted there and another seven patients are COVID positive but their genome sequencing reports were still awaitedSeven others have been discharged after testing negative for Omicron variant they said and added that every patient is asymptomatic and all had a travel historyThe latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department however did not specify the variants detectedTuesdays figures are the highest since June 4 when Delhi recorded 523 fresh COVID-19 cases and 50 fatalities while the positivity rate stood at 068 per cent official figures statedThe positivity rate of 089 per cent is the highest since May 31 when it stood at 099 per centDelhi on Monday had recorded 331 fresh COVID-19 cases the highest single-day rise since June 9 and one death while the positivity rate mounted to 068 per cent according to the dataOn Sunday Delhi logged 290 cases with a positivity rate of 055 per cent and one fatality according to official figures On Saturday and on Friday the daily case counts were 249 and 180 respectivelyIn accordance with Level-1 alert under the graded response action plan GRAP private offices will function with physical attendance of 50 per cent of the staff barring essential categoriesMarriages and funerals will be allowed attendance of 20 people while all other types of gathering related to social political cultural religious and festival events will be prohibited under the yellow alert that came into force with immediate effectShops of non-essential goods and services in markets and malls can open based on odd-even formula from 10 AM to 8 PM Restaurants will be permitted with 50 percent of capacity from 8 am to 10 pm while bars can also operate with the same capacity but from 12 noon to 10 pmSeven COVID-19 deaths were reported in November in Delhi this year according to the official dataAccording to the bulletin a total of 55 865 tests were conducted a day ago including 48801 RTPCRCBNAATTrue Nat tests while the rest were rapid antigen testsThe number of active cases mounted to 1612 from 1289 on Monday according to the bulletinThe bulletin said that 34 patients are in ICUIt stated that apart from those in ICU all other patients in hospitals are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic The number of people under home isolation stood at 692 on Monday while it rose to 836 on Tuesday and the number of containment zones in the city stood at 397 a significant jump from 310 on Monday the bulletin said PTI SLB BUN PYK PYK
New Delhi Dec 28 PTI The national capital on Tuesday registered a massive spike in daily COVID-19 with 496 fresh cases the highest since June 4 while the positivity rate also rose to 089 per cent along with one fatality due to coronavirus in the cityThe total number of cases of new Omicron variant of COVID-19 recorded in Delhi has also mounted to 165There were 67 Omicron cases in the national capital on FridayAccording to the health department 120 travellers who tested positive on their arrival at the IGI Airport have been admitted to hospitals in the last 24 hours Their samples would be sent for genome sequencingThe 50 per cent jump in daily COVID-19 cases was reported hours after a Yellow alert was implemented in the national capital under which schools colleges cinemas and gyms will remain closed shops dealing in non-essential items will open on odd-even basis and metro trains will run with 50 per cent of seating capacityThe Delhi Disaster Management Authority also extended the timing of the night curfew imposed from Monday night by an hour and it will now begin at 10 pm and will remain till 5 amIn view of a rise in Omicron cases the authorities in Delhi had begun genome sequencing of samples of daily COVID-19 cases on December 22 to ascertain if the new variant has spread in the communityEarlier in the day officials at LNJP said 56 out of 70 Omicron patients have been discharged Three of the patients did not have travel history but had come in contact with those who were infected at a wedding in Rajasthan These can be called sporadic cases they saidAccording to officials at Batra Hospital five Omicron patients are admitted there and another seven patients are COVID positive but their genome sequencing reports were still awaitedSeven others have been discharged after testing negative for Omicron variant they said and added that every patient is asymptomatic and all had a travel historyThe latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department however did not specify the variants detectedTuesdays figures are the highest since June 4 when Delhi recorded 523 fresh COVID-19 cases and 50 fatalities while the positivity rate stood at 068 per cent official figures statedThe positivity rate of 089 per cent is the highest since May 31 when it stood at 099 per centDelhi on Monday had recorded 331 fresh COVID-19 cases the highest single-day rise since June 9 and one death while the positivity rate mounted to 068 per cent according to the dataOn Sunday Delhi logged 290 cases with a positivity rate of 055 per cent and one fatality according to official figures On Saturday and on Friday the daily case counts were 249 and 180 respectivelyIn accordance with Level-1 alert under the graded response action plan GRAP private offices will function with physical attendance of 50 per cent of the staff barring essential categoriesMarriages and funerals will be allowed attendance of 20 people while all other types of gathering related to social political cultural religious and festival events will be prohibited under the yellow alert that came into force with immediate effectShops of non-essential goods and services in markets and malls can open based on odd-even formula from 10 AM to 8 PM Restaurants will be permitted with 50 percent of capacity from 8 am to 10 pm while bars can also operate with the same capacity but from 12 noon to 10 pmSeven COVID-19 deaths were reported in November in Delhi this year according to the official dataAccording to the bulletin a total of 55 865 tests were conducted a day ago including 48801 RTPCRCBNAATTrue Nat tests while the rest were rapid antigen testsThe number of active cases mounted to 1612 from 1289 on Monday according to the bulletinThe bulletin said that 34 patients are in ICUIt stated that apart from those in ICU all other patients in hospitals are asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic The number of people under home isolation stood at 692 on Monday while it rose to 836 on Tuesday and the number of containment zones in the city stood at 397 a significant jump from 310 on Monday the bulletin said PTI SLB BUN PYK PYK
