Delhi Reports 3,194 Fresh Covid-19 Cases, Positivity Rate Logged At 4.59%

Case positivity rate is at a hair’s breadth from 5% mark, which if recorded for two consecutive days would trigger a ‘red alert’

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NEW DELHI: Delhi on Sunday added 3,194 infections to its Covid case tally with a positivity rate of 4.59 per cent. Sunday saw the highest single-day rise in Covid cases since May 20 and it was 17 per cent higher than the 2,716 infections registered a day before. The city also reported one fatality due to the disease taking the death toll to 25,109.

Experts believe that a large number of the new cases have been caused by the highly contagious Omicron variant.

The case positivity rate is at a hair’s breadth from the five per cent mark, which if recorded for two consecutive days would trigger a ‘red alert’ under the Delhi Disaster Management Authority-approved Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).

It would lead to a ‘total curfew’ and halting of most economic activities.

Delhi had reported 3,231 cases on May 20 last year with a positivity rate of 5.50 per cent.

As many as 233 deaths were recorded on that day.