Delhi
Delhi records more than 7000 coronavirus cases in single day
New Delhi/IBNS: The national capital on Friday surpassed its highest spike in daily cases so far and registered a massive 7,178 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours.
Until now the number of per day COVID-19 cases in Delhi had never breached the 7,000-mark.
For the last three days, Delhi had been reporting over 6,000 cases of the contagion daily.
The second-biggest spike in cases was on Nov 4, when the city reported 6,842 cases.
The total number of cases now stands at 4,23,831.
As per the government data, 64 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours and the death rate stands at 1.6 per cent, while the recovery rate is 89 per cent.
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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