Delhi has been recording less than 7000 fresh cases for a week and on Friday,
5.482 new cases were reported from 64,455 tests, Including 28,100 RT-PCR ones, in the past 24 hours, with a positivity rate of 8.5%. On Friday morning. Jain said the positivity rate on the previous two days had been below 9% despite a high number of tests being carried out.
On Thursday, Delhi government had told the high court it would soon take a call on Imposing night curfew, which had been permitted in the latest central guidelines on November 25. The Centre told the court that these guidelines ollowed states and Union territories to impose local restrictions, including night curfews, based on then assessment of the Covid situation on the ground especially in containment zones.
“We are monitoring all aspects and whatever actions have to be taken will be based on that. We are also monitoring the trend of positivity rate, which is difficult to analyse in one day but for two days. It has been less than 9%, Jain said on Friday, The government is monitoring if the positivity rate keeps declining, stagnates or
reverses, he added.
The minister said that compared with the high of 15.2% on November 7, the positivity rate had been consistently declining “Not only the overall positivity rate but even the positivity rate of RT-PCR tests has gone down from 30 on November 7 t0 15,8% now. The positivity rate of rapid antigen tests. too, have come down from 83% on November 710 25 now, which is one-third” he said.
We carried out a door to door survey of 57 lakh people, out of which around 13,000 Suspects had come but only 1100-1.200 tested positive. So it seems the positivity rate is going down in Delhi he said in the past seven days less than 7,000 cases have come very day, which, too, is a positive indicator” Jain said.
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