Capital reports over 8.5K cases, second-highest single-day spike
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The city reported 8,521 fresh COVID-19 cases in 24 hours — the second-highest daily spike since the beginning of the pandemic —, taking the total number of cases to 7,06,526, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Friday. The highest number of daily new cases reported in Delhi since the beginning of the pandemic was 8,593 cases on November 11. It also reported 39 deaths were reported in 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths to 11,196. A total of 1,09,398 tests were done in a day, the bulletin said. Of the total cases, 6,68,699 people have recovered and there are 26,631 active cases. The positivity stood at 7.79% on Friday and the overall positivity till now was 4.6%, as per the bulletin.More Related News