After several days of watching the chart striding towards the upward trend rapidly, the national capital recorded 3,009 new cases of coronavirus and 252 fatalities in the past 24 hours. The positivity rate was less than 4.76 percent- the first time that Delhi registered a positivity rate below 5 percent since April 4th, after days of havoc due to the virus.
The below 5 percent PR would now put pressure on the government to either lift the lockdown or bring some heavy relaxations as the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared any state with less than 5 percent positivity rate as a safe zone.
Despite this, the situation doesn’t seem to be in the state of welcoming the ease in restrictions as Delhi saw enough terrible times to put their guard down now. PTI reported medical experts trusting the lockdown to be a major source of bringing down the covid cases in the city in the massive second wave of coronavirus.
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The fresh cases reported in the last 24 hours- 3,009- were also the least logged since April 1st. Delhi is registering less than 4,000 cases every day since the last 3 consecutive days.
The city has 35,683 active cases- the lowest number since April 11th. Due to the decrease in active cases, Delhi’s recovery rate now stands at 95.85 per cent with a fatality rate of 1.62 per cent.
There have been 14,12,959 positive cases of covid till now and 22,831 deaths in the city since March 2020.
Amongst the many states and cities of India, the second wave of the pandemic hit Delhi the most as it became the ground witnessing thousands of cases and deaths with a never-ending influx of cases. Hospitals were overwhelmed as medical equipment wasn’t enough to cater to the urgent needs of all patients.
Lack of resources, oxygen, hospital beds, medicines, and many other essentials took several lives. Cremation grounds were filled with bodies waiting to get cremated as ambulances and private vehicles kept dumping the dead due to covid.
Even the biggest hospitals in the city were falling short of resources to treat covid patients and many were left to care for themselves as some hospitals denied taking in patients below a certain SpO2 level.
The desperate times took the Delhi government to the court to demand its rightful share of oxygen from the Central government. The city blamed that the Centre wasn’t giving it enough to meet the demand.
