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  • Delhi records 431 fresh Covid-19 cases, highest in two months

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Delhi on Friday recorded 431 new COVID-19 cases, the highest single-day rise in nearly two months, while the positivity rate increased to 0.60 per cent, according to data shared by the health department.

    The death toll climbed to 10,936 with two more fatalities, as per the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi Health Department.

    The city recorded over 400 cases for the second consecutive days on Friday.

    The count on Thursday was 409.

    Delhi had registered 370 cases on Wednesday and 320 on Tuesday.

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    The city had reported three deaths due to the disease on Wednesday and four on Tuesday.

    On Sunday and Monday, 286 and 239 cases, respectively, were recorded in the national capital.

    Delhi had registered 321 coronavirus cases and one death last Saturday, and 312 cases and a fatality on Friday.

    A total of 585 cases were reported on January 1 and 384 on January 4.

    The daily count had dropped to 306 on January 11 and risen again to 386 on January 12, according to official figures.

    The numbers had started to come down in February.

    On February 26, the month’s highest daily count of 256 cases was recorded.

    On Friday, 431 new coronavirus cases were recorded, taking the infection tally to 6,42,870, the bulletin said.

    The number of active cases of the disease in the city rose to 2,093 from 2,020 on Thursday, while the positivity rate rose to 0.60 from 0.59 per cent the previous day.

    Health experts and doctors have attributed this “sudden rise” to people turning complacent, not following COVID-19 appropriate behaviour and “assuming all is well now”.

    The total number of tests conducted on Thursday stood at 72,031, including 46,135 RT-PCR tests and 25,896 rapid antigen tests, the bulletin said.

    The number of people under home isolation on Friday rose to 1,097 from 1028 on Thursday, it said, adding that over 6.29 lakh people have recovered from the infection till date.

  • After defeating COVID, aim to clean Yamuna in next three years: Delhi minister Satyendar Jain

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: Amid falling cases of COVID-19 and reduced fatalities, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said the pandemic has been “defeated” in the national capital through a number of combative measures.

    In a statement released on the completion of the Arvind Kejriwal government, Jain, who also holds the portfolio of the water department, said, the government will now aim to clean the Yamuna river in the next three years.

    The Delhi government has “firmly fought the war against coronavirus,” he said.

    Delhi recorded 94 fresh COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the lowest in over nine months, while the positivity rate slipped to 0.17 per cent, authorities said.

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    One fatality was also registered on Tuesday, taking the death toll in the city to 10,894, according to the latest health bulletin issued by the city government.

    Delhi had recorded 96 coronavirus cases on January 27, that time the lowest in over nine months, and the first time the daily count had stood below the 100-mark in that month.

    No death due to COVID-19 was recorded on Saturday in Delhi, second time in February when the single-day fatality count was nil.

    On February 9, no fatality due to COVID-19 was registered in the national capital, after a gap of nearly nine months.

    Also, on February 5 and F7, the fatality counts were two on both the days, same as on February 2.

    The minister also claimed that 73 per cent of people got “zero amount electricity bill during the pandemic period”.

    “After defeating coronavirus, the Delhi government will aim to clean the Yamuna river in three years from now,” he was quoted as saying in the statement.

    Jain said the world had never seen such a pandemic after the 1918 Spanish Flu, until coronavirus hit everyone.

    “Almost a year is about to end and people who were getting free electricity are getting it free, those who were getting at the half-rate, continued to get it on half-rate. In the last billing cycle, 73 per cent of people got zero amount electricity bills. Even the water bill of 13,66,000 people was zero in amount,” he said.