Covid-19: Delhi reports zero deaths for third consecutive day, 35 new cases detected

This is the 22nd time when the city has recorded zero deaths in a day since the second wave of Coronavirus began.

Delhi had reported zero Covid-19 fatality earlier on Thursday and Wednesday as well, according to the official data.

The daily positivity rate has fallen to 0.05 per cent as the city conducted 63,812 tests in the last 24 hours, the health department stated.

Meanwhile, 17 people recovered from the viral illness in the last 24 hours and around 83 individuals remain in home isolation, the data showed.

Total 362 Covid-19 cases remain active in the city, it added.

The latest addition has pushed the cumulative case tally to 14,37,874 while the death toll remained at 25,082 government data showed.

The cumulative positive rate in the national capital has been assessed at 5.56 percent while the case fatality rate (cumulative) is recorded at 1.74 per cent, it added.

Over the past two weeks, the single-day case tally has not exceeded 50. Delhi has also recorded 22 instances so far where no deaths were reported in a day since the second wave of Covid-19 hit the national capital.

Earlier, the national capital had maintained a streak of 4 consecutive days, from August 26-29, where no deaths due to Covid-19 were reported. However, the streak was broken on Monday.

Before the second wave, the national capital had recorded zero deaths on March 2 this year.

On that day, the number of single-day infections stood at 217 and the positivity rate was 0.33 per cent.

The second wave swept the city during the April-May period.