New Delhi Apr 25 PTI Delhi on Monday reported 1011 fresh COVID-19 cases and one death while the positivity rate rose to 642 per cent according to the health departmentThe infection tally in the national capital now stands at 1875887 and the death toll at 26170 the bulletin statedA total of 15642 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city the previous day it saidDelhi on Sunday saw 1083 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 448 per cent while one person died due to the diseaseThe capital had reported 1094 COVID-19 infections on Saturday the highest since February 10 with a positivity rate of 482 per cent and two deathsDelhi had logged 1042 cases with a positivity rate of 464 per cent and two fatalities on Friday On Thursday the city reported 965 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 471 per cent and one death PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Apr 25 PTI Delhi on Monday reported 1011 fresh COVID-19 cases and one death while the positivity rate rose to 642 per cent according to the health departmentThe infection tally in the national capital now stands at 1875887 and the death toll at 26170 the bulletin statedA total of 15642 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city the previous day it saidDelhi on Sunday saw 1083 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 448 per cent while one person died due to the diseaseThe capital had reported 1094 COVID-19 infections on Saturday the highest since February 10 with a positivity rate of 482 per cent and two deathsDelhi had logged 1042 cases with a positivity rate of 464 per cent and two fatalities on Friday On Thursday the city reported 965 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 471 per cent and one deathWith the national capital witnessing an uptick in coronavirus infections over the past few days the number of active cases in the city has now increased to 4168 from 601 on April 11 according to health department dataHowever the hospitalisation rate so far has been low accounting for less than three per cent of the total active cases the bulletin statedCurrently 90 COVID-19 patients are admitted in Delhi hospitals while 3067 are recuperating in home isolation it saidOf the 9379 beds available for COVID-19 patients in various hospitals only 121 12 per cent are occupied the data showedIn the wake of rising cases the Delhi government had on Friday issued an order directing authorities to impose a fine of Rs 500 on people not wearing masks in public places The fine will not apply to people travelling together in private four-wheelers it saidThe government had lifted the fine for not wearing masks on April 12 because of a decline in daily casesThe decision to bring back the mask mandate and the fine came at a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority which devises COVID-19 management policies for the national capitalThe city health department said that from Thursday Delhi has started providing free precautionary doses of COVID-19 vaccines to beneficiaries in the 18-59 age group at government vaccination centres PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Mar 30 PTI Days after the fire at the Ghazipur landfill site sent pollution levels in nearby areas soaring experts on Wednesday said authorities need to speed up the bioremediation of legacy waste at such sites in the capital and build an extensive infrastructure to avoid dumping of fresh wet waste into landfills to prevent such instancesThe Delhi governments Department of Environment has blamed the East Delhi Municipal Corporations carelessness for the blaze that broke out on Monday afternoon turning the sky hazy grey and choking residents in nearby areasEnvironment Minister Gopal Rai has directed the Delhi Pollution Control Committee to impose a fine of Rs 50 lakh on the EDMC and to take action against erring officersExperts said that preventing fires at landfills is a two-pronged challenge -- legacy waste has to be remediated at an accelerated rate and the dumping of fresh waste has to be reducedWe need a very extensive infrastructure for segregation composting recycling and reuse so that uncontrolled dumping of waste does not happen at landfillsPolicies and funding are available The question is how quickly we implement it said Anumita Roychowdhury executive director Research and Advocacy at the Centre for Science and EnvironmentAuthorities need to ensure segregated collection and transportation of waste composting facilities in each and every ward of Delhi and material recovery facilities for recycling and reuse of waste They will have to optimise all assets for recycling and reuse she saidBharati Chaturvedi founder and director of Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group said the long-term solution would be that the waste does not reach landfill sitesThe law says only inert waste can be dumped at landfill sites There cannot be a solution if you have the wrong kind of waste in a landfill she saidFires at landfills are a source of shock load a sudden load in terms of pollutants in the air You will have a combination of chlorides heavy metals dioxins sulphur oxides and particulate matter of different sizesThe wet waste dumped in a landfill produces methane when it rots In hot weather conditions methane catches fire spontaneously and the blaze spreads as it feeds on combustible material like textiles and plastics she explainedChaturvedi said authorities should adopt a carrot and stick policy to find a solution in the short-term which could be the municipal corporations issuing directions with a deadline that only inert waste will be collected from households and giving colonies an incentive to set up composting facilitiesA massive campaign should be run for 30 days to encourage people to take up composting and the municipal corporations should buy the compost from them she addedLast year authorities reported four incidents of fire at the Ghazipur landfill In 2017 a large part of it broke away crashing onto a road and killing two peopleCommissioned in 1984 the Ghazipur landfill site is spread across 70 acres In 2019 the garbage dump had grown 65 metres in heightAccording to an action plan submitted to the National Green Tribunal the municipal corporations have to remediate the legacy waste at the landfill at Ghazipur by March 2022 Bhalswa by December 2023 and Okhla by March 2023As on February 28 903 lakh tonnes of the total 140 lakh tonnes of legacy waste at Ghazipur had been remediated PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Mar 28 PTI Delhi on Monday reported 90 new COVID-19 cases and no fresh death due to the viral disease while the positivity rate stood at 053 per cent according to data shared by the city health departmentWith this the national capitals case count increased to 1864639 The death toll stands at 26151 the latest health bulletin statedAs many as 17019 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the city the previous day it saidDelhi had on Sunday reported 71 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 031 per cent and one deathOn Saturday it logged 120 cases with a positivity rate of 044 per cent and no deathThe city has recorded zero fatality count on multiple days this monthThe number of daily COVID-19 cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28867 on January 13The city had recorded a positivity rate of 306 per cent on January 14 the highest during the third wave of the pandemicThe surge in Covid cases in Delhi during the third wave of the pandemic was largely due to the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virusAmid the decline in daily cases the number of patients under home isolation in Delhi has also fallen significantly over the last few weeksAs on February 1 the total number of home isolation cases stood at 12312 The number stood at 339 on Monday the bulletin statedThere are 9805 beds for COVID-19 patients in Delhi hospitals and 57 058 per cent of them are occupied it said PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Dec 21 PTI Three out of the 34 Omicron-positive cases reported at the Lok Nayak Hospital here do not have travel history Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on TuesdayThe minister said the number of Omicron cases in the capital has increased to 54The LNJP Hospital has reported 34 cases of Omicron so far Seventeen of them have been discharged Of the 34 patients three do not have travel history We are trying to ascertain if they came in contact with Omicron-infected people who returned from foreign countries Jain told reporters hereLast week the Delhi government had asked four private hospitals -- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Rajinder Nagar Max Hospital in Saket Fortis Hospital in Vasant Kunj and Batra Hospital in Tughlakabad -- to set up facilities for treating and isolating suspected cases of OmicronWe have also come across some international travellers who tested negative for COVID-19 before taking a flight to Delhi but came out positive upon arrival at the airport Jain saidHe said Omicron originated in a foreign country and stopping all international flights is the only way to contain the spread of the new variant of concernHe said the state-run genome sequencing labs at Lok Nayak Hospital and Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences can sequence more than 100 samples a dayAccording to the directions of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal genome sequencing of all Covid-positive samples is being done in Delhi Jain saidEarlier in the day the health minister inaugurated the advanced life support ambulance service at Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalaya in east DelhiThis ambulance is equipped with modern facilities like incubators monitors and oxygen therapy for newborn babies It can also be used as an operation theatre in case of an emergencyJain thanked the Seed India Foundation for donating the ambulance PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Nov 22 PTI The national capital reported 26 cases of COVID-19 and zero deaths on Monday while the positivity rate stood at 006 per cent according to data shared by the health departmentDelhi has recorded four deaths due to COVID-19 so far in November Four people had succumbed to the viral disease in October and five in SeptemberWith the new cases the citys coronavirus infection tally climbed to 1440692 Of this over 1415 lakh patients have recovered from the infection The death toll stands at 25095 according to the health bulletinAuthorities conducted 40532 tests including 37147 RT-PCR ones the previous day There are 297 active Covid cases in Delhi and 126 of them are in home isolation The number of containment zones stands at 120 the bulletin statedDelhi reported 29 COVID-19 cases on Sunday and 32 on SaturdayIn April and May Delhi battled a brutal second wave of the pandemic that claimed a large number of lives and led to a shortage of oxygen and essential drugs at hospitalsOn April 20 Delhi had reported 28395 cases the highest in the city since the beginning of the pandemic last year On April 22 the case positivity rate was 362 per cent the highest so farThe highest number of 448 deaths was reported on May 3According to the sixth sero survey 97 per cent of the population in Delhi has developed antibodies against coronavirus as a result of a large number of people getting exposed to the infection during the second wave and robust vaccination in the capitalAll districts in the capital have a seroprevalence rate of more than 93 per cent South Central Northeast and East districts recorded a seropositivity rate of 99 per cent 995 per cent 997 per cent and 998 per cent respectivelyWomen 901 per cent have a higher seropositivity rate than men 882 per cent Those aged below 18 have a seropositivity rate of 88 per centNinety-five per cent of the vaccinated people who have a history of COVID-19 infection have developed antibodies as compared to 82 per cent of the unvaccinated onesAccording to government data over 219 crore vaccine doses have been administered in Delhi since the inoculation exercise started on January 16 Over 83 lakh people have received both doses PTI GVS DIV DIV

New Delhi Oct 31 PTI The national capital on Sunday reported 45 new COVID-19 cases while the positivity rate stood at 008 per cent according to data shared by the health department hereNo fresh deaths were recordedDelhi has recorded only four deaths due to COVID-19 in October Last month five people had succumbed to the viral diseaseWith the new infections Delhis coronavirus caseload climbed to 1439870 So far over 1414 lakh patients have recovered the bulletin saidThe death toll stands at 25091 it saidAccording to the bulletin authorities conducted 56751 COVID-19 tests including 46468 RT-PCR ones the previous dayThere are 348 active cases in Delhi Of these 142 patients are in home isolation The number of containment zones stands at 86 the bulletin saidDelhi reported 37 cases of COVID-19 on Thursday and WednesdayIn April and May Delhi battled a brutal second wave of the pandemic that claimed a large number of lives and led to a shortage of oxygen and essential drugs in hospitalsOn April 20 the city reported 28395 cases the highest since the pandemic began last year On April 22 the case positivity rate stood at 362 per cent the highest so farThe highest number of 448 deaths was reported on May 3According to the sixth sero survey 97 per cent of Delhis population has developed antibodies against coronavirus as a result of a large number of people getting exposed to the virus during the second wave and a robust vaccination driveAll districts in the capital have a seroprevalence of more than 93 per cent Four districts South Central Northeast and East recorded a seropositivity rate of 99 per cent 995 per cent 997 per cent and 998 per cent respectivelyWomen 901 per cent have a higher seropositivity rate than men 882 per cent Those aged below 18 have a seropositivity rate of 88 per centNinety-five per cent of the vaccinated people who have a history of COVID-19 have developed antibodies as compared to 82 per cent of unvaccinated onesAccording to government data over 204 crore vaccine doses have been administered in Delhi since the inoculation exercise started on January 16 Over 74 lakh people have received both doses PTI GVS DIV DIV