Covid-19 fourth-wave scare!
Covid-19 fourth wave scares India. The National capital city Witnessed a rise in the temperature level. Whereas the single-day strike reached the 1,000 mark in the city.
The national capital logged 1,118 cases. It was on May 10 that the national capital had last recorded more than one thousand cases (1,118), with a positivity rate of 4.38 per cent and one death. This is the fifth consecutive day that Delhi has recorded over 600 cases in a day.
With the new cases reported on Tuesday, Delhi's tally of COVID-19 cases increased to 19,14,530 and the death toll stands at 26,223, the department said in its latest bulletin.
Delhi on Monday reported 614 new COVID-19 cases and zero death due to the disease, while the positivity rate stood at 7.06 per cent.
The city had on Sunday reported 735 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths due to the disease, while the positivity rate was at 4.35 per cent. It had on Saturday reported 795 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 4.11 percent and zero death.
Meanwhile, Mumbai on Tuesday reported 1,724 fresh Covid-19 cases, a rise of over 600 compared to Monday, and two fatalities due to the infection, the civic bulletin said. With this, Mumbai’s tally of infections climbed to 10,83,589 and the Covid-19 death toll to 19,575, it said. Maharashtra on Tuesday reported two more cases of the BA.5 variant of coronavirus, the state health department said.
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