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Delhi records 213 new cases lowest in over 3 months

| Sunday | 13th June, 2021

The city reported 213 new cases on Saturday while the positivity rate dipped to 0.30 per cent, the health bulletin said. On March 8, Delhi had recorded 239 new cases and on March 9, the daily tally was 320, according to official data. Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day deaths count had been spiralling up, with over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths recorded on April 20; rising to 306 fatalities on April 22. However, the number of cases have shown a downward trend and the positivity rate too has been shrinking in the last several days. The number of active cases decreased to 3,610 on Saturday from 3,922 a day before, according to the bulletin.

New Delhi: The national Capital recorded 213 new COVID-19 cases, the lowest in over three months, and 28 fatalities on Saturday, as Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal praised the people of Delhi, saying they have together faced the second wave of the pandemic with struggle and discipline and "succeeded in controlling it". According to the latest health bulletin, these new fatalities pushed the death toll from COVID-19 here to 24,800. The city reported 213 new cases on Saturday while the positivity rate dipped to 0.30 per cent, the health bulletin said. On Thursday, the city had recorded 305 new cases with a positivity rate of 0.41 per cent, and 45 deaths, while the daily tally was 238 on Friday with 0.31 per cent positivity rate, and 24 deaths. On March 8, Delhi had recorded 239 new cases and on March 9, the daily tally was 320, according to official data. The infection rate, which had reached 36 per cent in the last week of April, has come down to below one per cent now. Since April 19, both daily cases and single-day deaths count had been spiralling up, with over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths recorded on April 20; rising to 306 fatalities on April 22. On May 3, the city registered a record 448 deaths, as per the official data. However, the number of cases have shown a downward trend and the positivity rate too has been shrinking in the last several days. The number of deaths per day has also been showing a decline in the last couple of days. During the online event on Saturday, Kejriwal congratulated the people of Delhi, saying they have together faced the Covid second wave with struggle and discipline and "succeeded in controlling it". A total of 71,513 tests, including 50,766 RT-PCR tests and 20,747 rapid antigen tests, were conducted a day ago, according to the health bulletin on Saturday. The number of cumulative cases on Saturday stood at 14,30,884. Over 14 lakh patients have recovered from the infection. The number of active cases decreased to 3,610 on Saturday from 3,922 a day before, according to the bulletin.

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