238 new Covid-19 cases reported in Delhi

New Delhi: Delhi on Friday registered a sharp decline in the number of new infections as it reported 238 new Covid-19 cases and 24 fatalities in the last 24 hours, according to the State health bulletin.

Case fatalities also fell in the past 24 hours as 44 people succumbed to the virus the previous day

The reduction in the number of new cases and deaths in the Capital comes even after increased testing in the last 24 hours.

According to Covid19 health bulletin data, around 77, 112 samples tested for Covid-19 on Friday in comparison to over 75,000 tests done on Thursday, as per the state



data.

The Covid positivity rate fell to 0.31 per cent.

 The positivity rate reduced by 0.10 percentage points, as it stood at 0.41 percent on Thursday, the state health bulletin showed. The active caseload in Delhi has reached 3,922. According to the state health department, the case fatality rate from Covid-19 did not change in the last 24 hours, On Thursday, it was at 1.73 per cent and is the same on Friday as well.

The number of patients that recovered 504, total number of containment zones now 8,032, while on Thursday it was 9,547, the data showed.