The COVID-19 situation in the national capital continues to worsen as the city registered the highest single-day spike of 17,282 fresh COVID-19 infections and 104 related deaths.
According to the latest state health bulletin on Wednesday evening, the total infection caseload of Delhi has reached 7,67,438. There are 50,736 active cases here as of today. With 104 additional deaths in the last 24 hours, the overall COVID-19 death toll of the national capital now stands at 11,540.
The COVID-19 positivity rate of Delhi also jumped to 15.92 per cent on Wednesday.
Furthermore, a total of 9,952 people recovered from the virus in the said period, taking the total number of recoveries to 7,05,162.
Besides, the Delhi government has added 718 new COVID-reserved beds in 11 hospitals.
This is the fourth time the Delhi government has increased the number of beds in hospitals in the last 15 days, as the bed capacity in many hospitals was filled.
On Wednesday, 14 private hospitals were declared as full COVID-19 hospitals only.
The total number of COVID-reserved beds in these hospitals has gone up to 5,221.The number of ICU beds and ventilators have also been increased in hospitals.There were 628 ventilators in these hospitals and 28 more ventilators have been added.
With the addition of 187 ICU beds, the total number of ICU beds in the national capital will reach 874.
The hospitals where the addition of beds has been made include Lok Nayak Hospital, Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Rajiv Gandhi Super Specialty Hospital, Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital, Ambedkar Nagar Hospital, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital, Deepchand Bandhu Hospital and Satyavadi Raja Harishchandra Hospital.
Night curfew is already in place in the national capital from 10 pm to 5 am till April 30 while various other restrictions are also in place amid the massive spike in COVID-19 cases.
(With ANI Inputs)