Cases, positivity at 6-month high; city works to reopen Covid centres

Monday, 20 December 2021Newsdesk

Delhi saw the biggest single-day spike in new cases of Covid-19 in almost six months on Sunday, with 107 people testing positive for the infection.

New Delhi, 20 December 2021

As per news report of The Indian Express, the test positivity rate — the percentage of coronavirus tests that returned a positive result — was 0.17%, also the highest in almost six months. The last time Delhi reported more new infections in a day was on June 25, when 115 cases were detected. Until the end of November, Delhi was reporting around 30-40 cases daily on average. But both the number of daily cases and the positivity rate have risen over the last week.

Source - The Indian Express