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DEATHS
- From a high of about 75 to 80 deaths recorded every day, the number has come down to between 10 and 15. Earlier this week, it once came down to single digits. Delhi is the only state in the country which has been witnessing a declining trend in the number of deaths right now.
DECLINE
- Along with the relative stabilisation in the detection of new infections around 1,000 to 1,200 every day, Delhi has also seen a significant decline in the number of deaths of novel Coronavirus patients in the last one month.
- From a high of about 75 to 80 deaths recorded every day, the number has come down to between 10 and 15 now. Earlier this week, it once came down to single digits as well.
DECLINE
- Due to the high death count, Delhi also has one of the highest fatality rates in the country. In absolute terms, however, the number of deaths in Delhi is still very high.
- With 4,188 deaths recorded till Saturday, Delhi has the third highest death count in the country, after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu.
- However, it is likely to be overtaken by Karnataka in a day or two. Karnataka has recorded 3,839 deaths till now.
DEATH RATE
- As on Saturday, the death rate in the Capital was 2.76 per cent, whereas the national death rate has now fallen to 1.93 per cent.
- The highest death rates are in Maharashtra and Gujarat, around 3.5 per cent in both states.
- The highest death rates are in Maharashtra and Gujarat, around 3.5 per cent in both states On Saturday, Bihar became the eighth state in the country to have more than one lakh infections in the country.
COVID 19
- About 64,500 new cases were detected across the country on Saturday But Bihar has very low death numbers. So far, 515 people are reported to have died due to novel Coronavirus in the state. That gives it a death rate of 0.51 per cent, one of the lowest among the major states.
- About 64,500 new cases were detected across the country on Saturday, taking the total number of infections to 25.89 lakh, out of which 18.62 lakh, just about 72 per cent, have recovered from the disease. The death count is just about to touch 50,000