New Delhi: As the cases mounted to over 83,000 on Sunday, the number of Covid-19 containment zones in Delhi has risen to 421 after re-mapping of such areas, an increase of 141 in the last two days.
Pointing out that the number of recoveries was more than the number of new cases, the Delhi government said that the situation will improve in coming weeks and it will not be as bleak as it appeared in early June when there was a rapid surge in infections.
According to officials, around 2.45 lakh people have been screened till Saturday night in an ongoing mammoth exercise to check the spread of Covid-19 in the national capital under a revised strategy Officials said that the city has reported 2,889 fresh cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 83,077, while3,306 people have recovered from the dreaded virus during the same period.
The death toll from the novel coronavirus has risen to 2,623 with 65 fatalities reported in the last 24 hours. Recently, Delhi had surpassed Mumbai as the worst-hit city in the country.