Delhi has recorded a total of 2,224 fresh coronavirus cases on Sunday in the highest single-day spike. Further, 56 fatalities have recorded in the last 24 hours. The total infection tally has zoomed to 41,182, while the death toll has soared to 1,327. 

Notably, this is the third successive day when over 2,000 cases have been reported in a day in Delhi. The previous highest spike in fresh cases — 2,137 — was recorded on June 12.  .As many as 15,823 patients have recovered, been discharged or migrated so far, while there are 24,032 active cases, said the latest bulletin . 

Delhi Chief Secretary Vijay Dev on Sunday held a meeting through video conference with senior officials to ramp up the testing facilities to 10,000 in next two days, and have 100 per cent house-to-house survey in containment zones and other points pursuant to directions of the Union Home Ministry, the bulletin said.

As the cases rose, the Hindu Rao Hospital, run by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), was on Sunday declared as a dedicated COVID-19 hospital, according to an official order.

The number of containment zones in the city on Sunday stood at 222.

Earlier in the day, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that 500 railways coaches will be given to Delhi to address the shortage of beds for COVID-19 patients.

He also stated that Corona testing will be doubled in the capital city in the next 2 days. “To combat the spread of COVID-19 in Delhi, testing for coronavirus will be doubled in the next couple of days, and after six days testing would be increased by three times,” tweeted the Home Minister.

Nationally, with 8,049 COVID-19 patients cured in the last 24 hours, the recovery rate has become more than 50%. A total of 1,62,378 patients, so far, have been cured of COVID-19.

Currently, the recovery rate is 50.60%. This indicates that of all the cases of COVID-19, half of them have recovered from the disease. Timely case identification and proper clinical management have been the road to recovery.

Currently, 1,49,348 active cases are under medical supervision.

ICMR‘s testing capacity for detecting the novel Coronavirus in infected persons is continuously being ramped up. The number of government labs has been increased to 646 and private labs have been increased to 247 (A total of 893). In the last 24 hours, 1,51,432 samples were tested. The total number of samples tested thus far is 56,58,614.

Today, the Union Health Minister along with the Union Home Minister held a meeting with the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi and Chief Minister of Delhi to review the COVID-19 situation in the NCT of Delhi. Strengthening of containment measures, ramping up testing and adequate health infrastructure preparedness were discussed in the meeting.