Spiking Again? Delhi Sees Over 1800 New COVID-19 Cases In Past 24 Hours, The Highest This Month
Concerns of the COVID-19 spiking again are growing in Delhi after the national capital has seen an increase in the number of new infections in the past few days.
In the past 24 hours, the national capital recorded 1840 new COVID-19 cases, which is the highest so far this month.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that coronavirus testing in the national capital will be doubled from around 20,000 tests daily to 40,000 while highlighting that there has been a marginal increase in the COVID-19 cases during the last few days.
"There has been a marginal increase in COVID-19 cases in the last few days. We cannot let the condition to become worse. After August 17, daily cases are around 1,200-1,500. 1,693 new cases have been reported. Recovery rate is more than 90 per cent in the national capital. Rate of deaths due to coronavirus is declining. In August, the death rate was 1.4 per cent," Kejriwal said.
Delhi has so far recorded 1,67,604 COVID-19 cases, out of which 13208 is active.
Total COVID-19 cases about to touch 1.5 lakh
According to the official data, a total of 1,103 people were discharged/recovered/migrated in Delhi on Wednesday, taking the total number of such cases to 1,67,604.
A total of 4,369 deaths were reported due to coronavirus including 22 deaths on Thursday.
The national capital is showing an upward trend in the number of cases after it managed to bring down the number of daily infections to below the thousand mark in July.
Nothing alarming yet
While it has not reached alarming levels yet, the increase in the number of cases is coming up at a time, when the AAP government is trying to go back to normal, with opening-up the economy.
However, due to the feeling that the worst is over, an increasing number of people have started showing disregard to COVID-19 safety guidelines and are not following social distancing and wearing masks in public.??
Kejriwal warned Delhiites against any complacency. Saying that the government has issued instructions for stricter enforcement of COVID guidelines, he asked people to wear masks and take all precautions to remain safe and help others stay safe.?
Kejriwal said the situation is under control for the past one and a half months. "But for the past few days, an increase in the number of COVID cases has been witnessed. After August 17, the number of daily COVID cases has been around 1,200-1,500. This figure had gone down to 1,000 and even less a few days ago," he said.
