Today Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has requested the experts to audit COVID-19 death cases and suggest measures to reduce fatalities in the national capital, amid the spike of infections in the city.
The Chief Minister made the request at a meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), which is chaired by Lt Governor Anil Baijal.
A source told news agency Press Trust of India, “At the meeting, the Chief Minister asked experts to audit death cases and suggest measures which could reduce deaths in the national capital.”
This statement comes against the backdrop of Delhi’s three BJP-led municipal corporations alleging inconsistencies in the official death count in respect of the number of deaths projected by funerals at the crematoria and burial grounds here.
However, the total number of COVID-19 deaths as on November 23 was 8,512, while the civic bodies claimed to have carried out 10,318 funerals, according to the data of Delhi government.
On Tuesday, the national capital recorded over 100 COVID-19 deaths for the fifth consecutive day, and the death rate stood at 1.89 per cent.
While a total of 109 fatalities were recorded on Tuesday, as against 121 on Monday. The daily number of deaths has crossed the 100-mark and this is the seventh time in the last 13 days that.
On Monday the authorities reported 121 deaths, 121 on Sunday, 111 on Saturday, 118 on Friday, 131 on November 18, the highest till date, and 104 fatalities on November 12.
The active cases tally on Tuesday stood at 38,501, as compared to 37,329 on Monday
