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New Delhi: Delhi recorded 238 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in nearly three months, and 24 more deaths on Friday, while the positivity rate dipped to 0.31 per cent, according to data shared by the health department here. As per the latest health bulletin, these new fatalities pushed the death toll from COVID-19 here to 24,772. On Thursday, the city had recorded 305 new cases with a positivity rate of 0.41 per cent, and 45 deaths. On March 8, Delhi had recorded 239 cases and on March 9, the tally was 320, according to official data. A total of 77,112 tests, including 56,000 RT-PCR tests and 21,112 rapid antigen tests, were conducted a day ago, according to the health bulletin on Friday..