Delhi records highest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases with 6,725 fresh infections
New Delhi/IBNS: Delhi on Tuesday recorded a whopping 6,725 fresh cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the highest single daily tally since the pandemic stuck the national capital.
The city had been already reporting more than 5,000 cases for most of the last week.
On Tuesday, for the first time, the daily cases' figure crossed the 6,000-mark.
The total number of Covid-19 cases have crossed the 4-lakh mark and is standing at 4,03,096.
Delhi's health ministry bulletin revealed that 48 deaths were recorded over the last 24 hours, along with 3,610 recoveries.
The surge in cases comes as Delhi witnessed a dip in temperature.
The minimum temperate on Tuesday dropped to 10 degrees Celsius -- a record low this season.
The meteorology office has said it would declare a cold wave if the temperature stays this low tonight as well, media reports said.
Experts had already warned that there might be an exponential spike in Delhi's coronavirus cases with low temperature and increasing level of pollution.
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