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COVID-19 surge: Delhi reports 2 deaths, 813 new cases

| @indiablooms | Mar 20, 2021, at 10:26 pm

New Delhi/UNI: The national capital Delhi has been burdened with 813 fresh Corona cases in the last 24 hours, taking the number of infections to the maximum in the year 2021 since the onset of the disease last year, government source said Saturday.

Two deaths due to the virus have been reported in the city.

The fresh additions have taken the capital caseload to 6,47,161 while the death toll rose to 10,955.

According to health bulletin, 75,888 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the past one day. The recovery rate has now decreased to 97.78 per cent. The city's cumulative positivity rate currently stands at 4.71 per cent.

Currently, there are 1722 COVID patients under home isolation across the city who are mostly asymptomatic or the ones with very mild symptoms.

The number of active cases are 3,409 which includes patients under home isolation. Containment zones as of today are 712.

 

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