Delhi reports 496 new COVID-19 cases, highest single day spike in last 6 months

Dec 28, 2021

New Delhi, Dec 28 (ANI): The national capital reported 496 fresh COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours, thereby registering the highest single-day spike since the last six months. On June 4 this year, the national capital reported 523 COVID-19 cases. Moreover, the positivity rate in the city scaled up to 0.89 per cent today. This is the highest positivity rate since the past seven months. On May 31, the capital city reported a positivity rate of 0.99 per cent. Breaking another record, the capital city has 1,612 active cases as on date. Nearly six months ago, there were 1680 active cases on June 25. The Delhi Health Department informed that the total number of COVID-19 infections in the city has moved up to 14,44,179 with a cumulative positivity rate of 4.44 per cent. Of these, 142 cases are of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. As many as 172 new discharges were reported in the capital city thereby increasing the total discharges from this infection to 14,17,460. city added one more fatality today thereby taking the total death toll to 25,107.