The national capital of India recorded no new deaths due to coronavirus on Friday and only reported 57 new cases with a positivity rate of 0.08 per cent showed the data shared by the city’s health department. This has been the eleventh time since the beginning of the second wave of the pandemic in Delhi that zero fatality has been reported in a day.
According to official data, no death due to COVID-19 was recorded, on July 18, July 24, July 29, August 2, August 4, August 8, August 11 and August 12, August 13 and August 16 too.
The city had reported zero death due to the virus on March 2 this year. On that day, the number of single-day infections stood at 217 and the positivity rate was 0.33 per cent. The second wave swept the city during April-May period.
As per the latest bulletin released on Friday, it said 57 fresh cases as the positivity rate rose to 0.08 per cent. Twenty-five fresh COVID-19 cases, the lowest since April 15 last year, and two deaths due to the disease were recorded on Thursday, while the positivity rate had stood at 0.04 per cent, according to the official figures.
On Wednesday, the city had registered 36 cases and four fatalities, while the positivity rate had stood at 0.05 per cent.
