With 327 new fatalities, the death toll climbed to 4,83,790 Sunday. An increase of 1,18,442 cases has been recorded in active caseload in 24 hours, according to health ministry.
Nearly 1,586 patients are admitted to hospitals, with 375 patients on oxygen support, of which 27 are on ventilator, according to data by Delhi's health department released Saturday.
Maintaining that the city government is well prepared, Delhi's health minister said infrastructure has been augmented keeping in mind the high number of Covid cases.
R indicates number of people an infected person can spread Covid to, and depends on transmissibility probability, contact rate and expected time interval in which infection can happen.
The guidelines will come into force from 11 January. Previously, travellers coming from 'at risk' countries had to get their Covid test done upon arrival and wait till results were out.
Among new cases, a maximum 600 were reported from Gautam Buddha Nagar, 408 from Lucknow, 401 from Meerut and 382 from Ghaziabad, a health department release said.
Pawar is among a growing list of politicians who have contracted Covid. Earlier, Lok Sabha MP Arvind Sawant and Maharashtra minister Eknath Shinde had also tested positive.
Delhi's R for Covid has jumped to 2.54 between 23 & 29 Dec from 1.12 around 17 Dec. R values are higher than those reported at start of pandemic, when people were not vaccinated.
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