After decline, daily cases breach 500 mark again
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28,394 more beneficiaries take vaccine
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28,394 more beneficiaries take vaccine
Delhi witnessed 536 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours, the highest since January 1, taking the total number of cases to 6,45,025, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Wednesday.
On January 1, 585 cases were reported and then the cases reduced and even dropped below 100. But the number of new cases crossed 200 mark in February last week and has been increasing since then.
Also, three deaths were reported, taking the total number of deaths to 10,948. A total of 80,856 tests were done in a day. Of the total cases, 6,31,375 people have recovered and there are 2,702 active cases. The number of active cases has also been on the rise.
Centenarian Brij Prakash Gupta, who was born a year after the end of the deadly Spanish Flu, received his first shot of COVID-19 vaccine in Delhi on Wednesday, his son said. Gupta, now 107, stepped out of his home in south Delhi for the first time since March 20, last year to get his Covishield jab, son Vimal Gupta said, adding his father is doing fine. My father was born on November 26, 1920 in Delhi. He had worked as a manager in a bank in Delhi. Since, the bank s office was located in old Delhi, and there was communal violence during the Partition time, he resigned from the bank service and started his own business after that, he said.