39 new Covid-19 infections reported in india ;count of active cases drops below 500

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NEW DELHI The capital reported 39 Covid-19 infections and one fatality on Monday, while the amount of active cases within the city dropped below 500 for the primary time since April last year, consistent with data shared by the health department.

With the new cases, the general infection tally within the city climbs to 14,36,800. Of this, over 14.11 lakh patients have recovered from the disease On Sunday, the capital reported 66 cases of the disease with a positivity rate of 0.10 per cent.

On Saturday, the town had reported 72 COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 0.10 per cent and one death. On Friday, Delhi registered 44 cases with a positivity rate of 0.06 percent and five deaths There are 498 active cases of the disease in Delhi at the present , and 178 of them are under home-isolation.

According to covid19India.org, a crowdsourced initiative that collects data on Covid-19 cases and vaccination in India, Delhi had reported 480 active cases on April 5 last year he number of containment zones stands at 271, the bulletin said Delhi battled a brutal second wave of the pandemic that claimed a huge number of lives, with the shortage of oxygen at hospitals across the town adding to the woes.

On April 20, Delhi had reported 28,395 cases, the very best within the city since the start of the pandemic. On April 22, the case positivity rate was 36.2 per cent, the very best thus far .
The highest number of 448 deaths was reported on May 3.

The city government has been ramping up health infrastructure to stop a repeat of the crisis witnessed during the height of the second wave of the pandemic in April-May Steps are taken to extend the amount of hospital beds to accommodate up to 37,000 cases each day and to become self-reliant in terms of oxygen supply.

According to officials, around 160 PSA oxygen generation plants with a complete capacity of 148.11 metric tonnes are being installed at various government and personal hospitals within the city While 66 plants are being installed in Delhi government hospitals, 10 are being found out in central government hospitals and 84 privately healthcare facilities.
Forty-five PSA plants with a capacity of 55.46 MT have already been commissioned. Eighteen such plants of 21.06 MT capacity are going to be commissioned by Assumption , consistent with health department officials.

However, the tardy supply of Covid-19 vaccines may be a explanation for concern, the officials said According to government data, 1.07 crore vaccine doses are administered within the capital since the inoculation exercise started on January 16. Over 29 lakh people have received both the doses The Health department had recently told the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) that it’ll take another year to vaccinate all eligible beneficiaries aged above 18 against the coronavirus at “the present rate of vaccine supply”

.The officials said around 1.5 crore beneficiaries are eligible for Covid-19 vaccination within the capital and three crore doses are required to completely inoculate them Around 45 lakh doses are required monthly to finish the vaccination by December 2021.