Delhi sees 1,634 Covid cases, positivity rate comes down to 29.68 per cent
According to the bulletin, the fresh cases emerged out of 5,505 tests conducted the previous day.

According to the bulletin, the fresh cases emerged out of 5,505 tests conducted the previous day.
Inching towards the 1,000 mark, the city on Tuesday logged 980 fresh Covid-19 cases and two more fatalities. The positivity rate stood at 25.98%, from a total of 3,772 samples.
The national capital continues to witness a surge in the number of daily Covid infections. Delhi recorded 521 new cases on Tuesday, as per the daily health bulletin provided by the state government. The positivity rate stood at 15.6% and the number of tests conducted was 3,331.
The city on Thursday reported 117 new Covid-19 cases, the first time in five months that daily infections have crossed the 100 mark. No deaths were recorded.
On Tuesday, mock drills were conducted at various hospitals in Delhi to assess their preparedness, including availability of beds and manpower, to deal with any increase in the number of COVID cases.
Delhi on Friday recorded 123 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 1.06% while four more people succumbed to the disease, according to data shared by the health department here. The new cases were detected from 11,567 tests conducted the previous day, the department said in its latest bulletin.
Delhi on Sunday reported 942 fresh Covid-19 cases with a positivity rate of 7.25 per cent, according to data shared by the city health department. No new death has been reported due to the disease.
In Delhi, nearly all metrics such as home isolation cases, containment zones, positivity rate and active cases, used in the monitoring of the spread of coronavirus have shown a rising trend in the first 10 days of August.
The national capital continued to see a steep rise in the number of Covid-19 cases. On Thursday, Delhi recorded 2,202 fresh cases of the viral infection. With this, the number of coronavirus cases in the city remained above the 2,000-mark for the second consecutive day.
The capital once again recorded more than a thousand new cases of Covid-29 infection on Thursday, the second day in succession.
The daily tally of fresh Covid-19 cases in Delhi touched 1,066, the highest this month, on Wednesday, even as the positivity rate climbed to 6.91%.