HC questions officer for issuing
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City has 1,20,930 recoveries and 10,705 active cases at present
As many as 1,195 new COVID19 cases were reported
in Delhi in the past 24 hours,
taking the total number of
cases to 1,35,598, stated a
health bulletin released by
the Delhi government on
Friday.
Also, 27 more deaths have
been reported, taking the total number of deaths to
3,963.
Of the total cases,
1,20,930 people have recovered, while there are 10,705
active cases.
Though Health Minister
Satyendar Jain had earlier
this month said that the government would start another serological survey from
August 1 to find the percentage of people who have developed antibodies against
COVID19, no order in this
regard was issued till Friday
evening.
Officials of different districts said that there was no
confirmation on starting the
survey from Saturday.
Since the daily new cases
touched almost 4,000 – the
highest so far – on June 23,
the number of new cases has
been dropping and it has
been less than 1,500 for the
past 15 consecutive days.
The number of active cases has been decreasing since
July 1 and it has decreased
from 27,007 on July 1 by
60.3% to reach 10,705 on Friday.
Also, of the total 19,091
tests done in the past 24
hours, 70.5% of the tests
were rapid antigen tests,
which have shown a low positivity in the city compared
to RTPCR tests.
The number of people admitted to COVID19 hospitals
has also been decreasing. On
July 1, a total of 5,892 beds in
COVID19 hospitals were occupied and the number decreased to 2,932 on Friday.
During the same period,
the number of COVID19
positive people in home isolation has also decreased
from 16,703 to 5,763.
Also, the positivity rate
has dropped from 12.2% to
6.2%.
The number of containment zones was 692 on
Friday.
The Delhi government, in
an order issued to all hospitals on Friday, directed to
strictly comply with “rational use of PPE” available on
the website of Union Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare.
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