New Delhi, (Samajweekly) With 190 new cases reported in the last 24 hours, the total coronavirus cases in the national capital reached 3,108 on Monday with the toll remaining at 54 as no further death was reported.
No person recovered on Monday, according to the Delhi Health Report.
“A total of 877 patients have recovered from coronavirus so far in Delhi,” the Health Department said.
“As on date, 2,177 cases are active,” the report said.
Among the total 3,108 cases, 2,071 patients (or 66 per cent) were less than 50 years of age, while 488 were between 50-59 years and 549 patients were above the age of 60 years, the Health Report said.
In the last 48 hours, no death was reported in the city. Among the total 54 deaths, over half (29) were of those aged 60 years or above, 15 were aged between 50 to 59 and the rest 10 were below 50 years.
Also, among the total deaths, 46 people (85 per cent) had other serious diseases as well.
The report said as on Monday night, 11 patients are on ventilators, while 49 are in the ICU. So far, 39,911 tests have been conducted in the city and 2,401 reports are pending.
“While 3,108 reports were positive, 34,145 reports were negative,” it says.
There are three levels of coronavirus care in the city for those having no symptoms, mild symptoms or critical patients — Covid care centres (CCC), dedicated health centres and dedicated hospitals, respectively.
Across the city, there are seven CCCs housing 943 patients, the Health Department said. While the CCC formed in DDA flats Narela has highest number of patients at 507, that in Mandoli has 154 patients. There are two Covid-19 Health Centres having 117 patients, and nine Covid-19 hospitals having 642 patients.
“LNJP has the highest (197) Covid patients among all the hospitals,” the Health Department said.
The nine hospitals also included Central government hospitals and private hospitals. Among the private hospitals, Max has the highest (109) Covid patients.
The positive cases in the city are increasing at a rapid rate since the last 25 days. The total positive cases in Delhi were 97 with two deaths on March 30. By April 10, there were 903 cases with 14 deaths.
So far, Delhi has set up 99 containment zones across the city.
“Across the red zones, 273 people have tested positive. A total of 5,438 samples were collected from the containment zones so far,” the Health Report said. In Delhi, daily house to house surveillance and sanitisation of area under is being done in the containment zones.
