Covid scare grips Delhi again, 10 positive cases with positivity rate of 0.41%
New Delhi, December 23: With Covid surge in China and other countries, cases have also started increasing in Delhi. The national capital on Friday reported 10 new coronavirus cases. The positivity rate on Thursday was 0.41 per cent, as per the data of the Health Department.
On Wednesday, the national capital had reported five cases and the positivity rate was 0.19 per cent.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said there was no case of BF.7 variant in the national capital, adding that they would start house-to-house vaccination drive to administer precautionary doses.
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He said they already had 8,000 Covid beds in the national capital, adding that they had target to keep ready 36,000 beds. On the other hand, there was a storage capacity of 928 MT of oxygen in the national capital.
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The Delhi CM said there was no need to panic, and they were ready to deal with any situation.
At the same time, he urged the public to get precaution dose at the earliest. He claimed that XBB variant of Covid accounted for 92 per cent of positive cases; and there was not even single case of BF.7. This variant has not ven been detected in sewage samples taken from seven places in in the national capital, said Chief Minister Kejriwal.
- PTC NEWS
