Delhi's November surge in coronavirus cases is not just the worst that India has seen, but it is also likely the worst spike in cases that any city in the world has seen yet.

While data for every reporting country in the world is compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), data on individual cities has to be compiled by looking up the official sites of the world's worst-hit countries.

India Today Data Intelligence Unit's analysis of available data from these countries indicates that since the beginning of this month, Delhi's daily Covid numbers on several days are among the 10 worst days experienced by any city globally.

The only recorded days that come close are from Sao Paulo during Brazil's August surge. New York City's April surge also saw the city experience days with over 5,000 reported cases, but neither city comes close to Delhi's count of 8,593 on November 11. Some other days when Delhi recorded the highest coronavirus cases are November 10 (7,830), November 13 (7,802) and November 8 (7,745).

Among United States counties, Harris County in Texas recorded more than 10,000 cases on September 21, but the high number was a result of backlogged reporting. Among Brazilian cities, Rio de Janeiro comes next but does not compare with either Sao Paulo's or Delhi's numbers.

Meanwhile, a total of 3,797 new confirmed cases of Coronavirus infection were reported in Delhi during the last 24 hours taking the total number of cases to four lakh 89,202.

According to the Delhi Health Department, 3,560 recoveries have been reported in Delhi taking the number of recovered patients to 4 lakh 41 thousand 361. The death toll due to COVID-19 in the national capital reached 7,713 after 99 deaths were reported in Delhi in the last 24 hours. There are 40,128 active cases in the national capital.

As per the department, 11,810 RTPCR/CBNAA/TrueNat tests and 18,011 Rapid antigen tests were conducted yesterday taking the total number of tests to 54,79,391.

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