New Delhi India January 8 ANI Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that the national capital is estimated to report nearly 20,000 fresh COVID 19 cases today, with the rise in the positivity rate by 1 to 2 per cent from Friday.
On Friday, Delhi recorded 17,335 fresh cases with the positivity rate in the national capital on Friday at 17.73 per cent.
Jain said at this time, there was 6 times more hospitalizations than in the second wave, at this number of active cases. There are fewer admissions and less severity. The data is being compiled. Delhi will report around 20,000 fresh cases today, with the positivity rate going up by 1 -- 2 per cent. There were about 17,000 cases reported during the second wave and there were 2500 admissions today, there are nearly 200 to 300. The admissions this time are very little, he added.
The Minister said there has not been any Omicron variant of COVID 19 detected death in the city so far.
He told media that no patient with Omicron variant has died in Delhi so far.
The Health Minister said there are 13,300 beds for COVID 19 patients out of which 1,390 beds are currently occupied.
Almost 10 percent of the available beds are occupied, and 90 percent are still available, he said.
Asked about the healthcare workers who are also getting infected in the ongoing corona wave in the country, he said that most of them are in home isolation.
They may be getting infected when the disease is spreading. Most of them are in home isolation. It can't be called an alarming situation. Jain said healthcare workers are more than two lakh if we look at our bulletin.
He said that they are ready, wherever they are needed, they will be used, as asked about the 5,000 health assistants being prepared by the Delhi government. In India, 1,41, 986 new COVID 19 cases were reported in the last 24 hours, bringing the daily positivity rate in the country to 9.28 per cent, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Saturday.
The country's COVID 19 case tally went up to 3,53, 68,372 with this.
The country has reported 3,071 cases of Omicron, of which 1,203 have been recovered, according to the Health Ministry.