New Delhi Feb 25 PTI Delhi on Friday reported 460 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths while the positivity rate dropped to 081 per cent according to the data shared by the city health department With this the national capitals case count increased to1858614 and the death toll climbed to26117 the latest health bulletin stated The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 56984 it said Delhi on Thursday reported 556 cases with a positivity rate of 110 per cent and six deaths The number of daily cases in the national capital has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28867 on January 13 The city had recorded a positivity rate of 306 per cent on January 14 the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic Amid a decline in daily cases of COVID-19 in Delhi the number of patients under home isolation here has significantly fallen in the last two weeks The total number home isolation cases as on February 1 stood at 12312 and on February 25 it dipped to 1483 The number of containment zones which were also slowly falling in this period also registered a dip in its count to 5673 on February 25 according to official figures shared by the health department The surge in Covid cases in Delhi during the third wave of the pandemic was largely due to the Omicron variant which is highly transmissible There are 11617 beds for Covid patients in Delhi hospitals and 200 172 per cent of them were occupied A total of 200 Covid patients were in hospitals the Friday health department bulletin stated PTI KND AAR AAR

New Delhi Feb 25 PTI Delhi on Friday reported 460 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths due to the disease while the positivity rate dropped to 081 per cent according to data shared by the city health department With this the national capitals infection tally increased to1858614 and the death toll climbed to26117 the latest health bulletin stated The number of COVID-19 tests conducted a day ago stood at 56984 it said Delhi had on Thursday reported 556 cases with a positivity rate of 110 per cent and six deaths The number of daily cases in Delhi has been on the decline after touching the record high of 28867 on January 13 The city had recorded a positivity rate of 306 per cent on January 14 the highest during the ongoing wave of the pandemic PTI KND CK