The national capital recorded 4,039 fresh COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, the highest single-day spike so far, as the tally breached the two lakh-mark, while the death toll mounted to 4,638, authorities said. This is the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic that over 4,000 cases have been recorded in Delhi in a day.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said COVID-19 cases in Delhi would have been in the range of 1,500 had the government continued to conduct only 15,000-20,000 tests per day.
The previous highest single-day spike of 3,947 cases was recorded on June 23. Twenty fatalities have been recorded in the last 24 hours, according to the latest bulletin issued by the Delhi health department.
The tally of active cases rose to 23,733 from 22,377 the previous day, it said. The death toll from COVID-19 in Delhi stood at 4,618 on Tuesday. The bulletin on Wednesday said the death toll from coronavirus infection has risen to 4,638 and the total number of cases has climbed to 2,01,174.
Kejriwal asked people not be afraid due to the rising number of cases, pointing out that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 was low in Delhi. “Today, highest no of cases — 4039. But also, highest no of tests — 54,517 against 15,000/20,000 tests till last week. If we did same no of tests, today’s cases wud be less than 1500. So, don’t b scared by no of cases. Del wages war against corona wid aggressive testing (sic),” he tweeted.
The number of COVID-19 tests per million in the national capital crossed the one-lakh mark on Wednesday, as the authorities conducted a record 54,517 tests in the last 24 hours, government data showed. According to the latest health bulletin issued by the Delhi government, the test-per-million count stood at 1,00,198. As many as 11,101 RT-PCR, CBNAAT, True Nat and 43,416 rapid-antigen tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, it said.
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