Delhi records 50% jump in fresh COVID-19 cases

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Delhi recorded 299 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday which represents a close to 50 percent jump over the 202 cases registered on the previous day.</p>
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This has given rise to concern as the coronavirus appears to be staging a comeback after the national capital had opened up all activities and life was largely back to normal.</p>
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While no death due to the highly contagious disease was reported in the last 24 hours, the daily positivity rate has gone up to 2.49 per cent.</p>
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Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain had earlier said the city government is keeping a watchful eye on the situation and there is no reason to worry until a new variant of concern is detected.</p>
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He had said that the daily cases in Delhi are being reported in the range of 100-200 and a close watch is being kept on hospital admissions which were going down.</p>
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The number of daily COVID-19 cases in Delhi had touched a record high of 28,867 on January 13 this year during the third wave of the pandemic and the positivity rate had shot up to 30.6 per cent.</p>
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Delhi had recently stopped imposing fines for not wearing masks in public places after a decline in Covid cases. This had in effect made wearing masks optional. </p>
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