New Delhi: The nationwide capital has reported as many as 17,282 and 104 deaths on Wednesday. In the final 30 days, Delhi alone has seen a 4200% improve in its day by day caseload although only a month in the past the instances had been in a number of hundred.
The positivity fee is at the moment at 15.92%, with 767438 constructive instances, which is the best ever within the state. Notably, 91.92% of ventilator beds are at the moment occupied, with solely 99 beds now obtainable from the entire 1226 beds.
Delhi Curfew News: CM Kejriwal Announces Weekend Curfew To Break The Chain
According to a survey asking whether or not they had been in favour of a 3-week lockdown which was carried out by LocalCircles, 59% of the responses obtained stated ‘Yes’ whereas 36% of residents stated “No” and 5% couldn’t say. The query within the survey obtained 8,211 responses residing in 11 districts of Delhi. It was talked about that important companies ought to proceed so that folks face no points to run their households.
This response modified inside a month, when an analogous survey was carried out in March and solely 16% had been favour of a lockdown.
Meanwhile, in response to sources, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal will maintain a press convention at 1 pm on Thursday and can probably announce a weekend shutdown. Delhi might go below a weekend curfew with stricter pointers as Delhi’s positivity fee has additionally spiked to fifteen.92 %, a pointy rise from 13.14 % on Tuesday.
With a pointy rise in deaths as a result of newest surge in Covid-19, crematoriums and burial grounds within the metropolis are struggling to handle assets. On Wednesday, well being minister Satyendar Jain stated that the Covid-19 instances are rising very quickly each single day and “there is no slow down” within the unfold of the pandemic within the nationwide capital.
