India fights COVID-19: Delhi reports 'zero' deaths in past one day
New Delhi/UNI: The national capital -- Delhi -- for the first time since the inception of pandemic novel coronavirus reported zero casualties during the past 24 hours.
As many as 100 new cases were detected in the past one day.
The fresh figures have taken the capital caseload to 6,36,260 while the death toll remained steady at 10,882.
According to health bulletin, 59,410 COVID-19 tests were conducted in the past one day. The recovery rate has now increased to 98.12 per cent. The city's cumulative positivity rate currently stands at 5.65 per cent.
Currently, there are 441 COVID patients under home isolation across the city who are mostly asymptomatic or the ones with very mild symptoms. The number of active cases are 1,052 which includes patients under home isolation. Containment zones as of Tuesday are 950.
Expressing happiness over zero fatalities, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that Delhi's collective will is gradually winning over the infection.
"I congratulate the people of Delhi for taking proper precautions and our healthcare and frontline workers who have fought this battle tooth and nail," the Minister averred.
The health Department further said that a meeting of state task force for immunization was held under the Chairmanship of Principal Secretary regarding vaccination in the state.
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