At 331, Delhi's daily Covid-19 tally sees massive spike, yellow alert likely

New Delhi, Dec 27: Delhi added 331 fresh Covid-19 cases over the last 24 hours, according to the latest state health department's data. The active Covid cases currently stand at 1,289, of which 692 are in home isolation.

With this, the yellow alert of the graded action response plan (Grap) is likely to come into effect. Further discussions on the situation will be held on Tuesday before a final call on sounding the 'Yellow' alert and imposing restrictions as per the GRAP is taken.

"Although COVID-19 cases are rising in Delhi and positivity rate has breached the 0.5 per cent mark but hospitalisations are very low and fatality rate is negligible. Any decision about implementation of 'Yellow' alert restrictions will be taken after further discussions," a senior officer told PTI.

This rise is the highest since June 9 when 337 cases were logged with a positivity rate of 0.46 per cent, while 36 deaths were also recorded on that day.

The number of cumulative cases on Monday stood at 14,43,683. Over 14.17 lakh patients have recovered from the infection.

The spike in fresh cases in the last few days is being recorded amid a jump in cases of new Omicron variant of the coronavirus here.

The death toll due to the coronavirus infection in Delhi rose to 25,106.

On Sunday, Delhi recorded 290 cases with a positivity rate of 0.55 per cent and one fatality, according to officials figures. On Saturday and Friday, the daily case counts had stood at 249 and 180 cases respectively.

The spike in covid numbers comes on a day Delhi decided to impose night curfew amidst the festival season the rise in the number of Omicron cases. On Monday, Delhi reported 63 cases of Omicron.

The night curfew in Delhi will be in force between 11 pm and 5 am. All gatherings will forbidden during the night curfew. However there are some exceptions.

What is allowed during the Delhi night curfew?

• You are allowed to walk to neighbourhood shops to purchase essential commodities such as fruits, food, vegetables, dairy products and medicines.
• Television and print journalists are exempt from the night curfew.
• Shops selling food items, groceries, fruits and vegetables, dairy and milk booths, meat and fish, animal feed, pharmaceuticals, medicines are exempt from the night curfew.
• Food items, pharma, medical equipment can be delivered through e-commerce sites during the night curfew.
• Those going for COVID-19 vaccination have to produce a valid identity card and registration form.
• Pregnant women and patients can go for treatment during night curfew.