The Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Wednesday informed that the covid-19 positivity rate in the national capital currently stands at 6.89 percent, he added that the pandemic situation is better now.
At a media briefing, he said that the positivity rate declined due to the lockdown. Though he refused to comment on when the lockdown will be raised and said that the citizens can’t be at ease at this time until the positivity rate reaches 5 percent.
“We have a positivity rate at 6.89 percent. Delhi was reporting around 28,000 new Covid-19 cases before lockdown, now around 4,000 cases are being reported. The situation is better now,” he said.
Since April 19 the national capital has been put under lockdown in view of a spike in coronavirus cases. The stock of Covaxin is over in Delhi for the 18-44 age group and Covishield vaccines for the age group are left for another two days, informed the Health Minister.
Asked on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s comment that a strain has arrived from Singapore, Jain said, “Rather than discussing where the strain came from it is more important to know that India now has many numbers of strains.”
He further added that out of total 27,000 hospital beds in Delhi, 13 thousand beds are vacant and out of 4500 ICU beds, 1,200 beds remain to be used.
However, the Health Minister said that the government has demanded one lakh doses of medicines for black fungus infection for the treatment from the Centre.
“South West Delhi has the most number of cases, so we are doing the majority of our Covid-19 tests there, but for the last four days the cases are decreasing there,” he added.
The national capital continued to see a decline in Covid-19 cases with the city seeing 4,482 new cases in the last 24 hours, according to Delhi’s government health bulletin on Tuesday.
The recovery rate has improved to 94.79 percent, which is the highest since April 8. The fatality rate stands at 1.5 percent.
