South Africa’s first patient with coronavirus (SARS-KOVI-2 virus) has been seen to increase daily in Covid-19 cases in the capital Delhi A 33-year-old infected patient from Kerala has been placed in a special ward of Lokayukta Jai ​​Prakash Hospital in Delhi. Doctors are monitoring their condition.

According to information, the patient was rushed to the LNJP Hospital in Delhi after a positive RT-PCR test at Delhi Airport. Since he returned from South Africa, authorities have suspected this could be an adaptation of the new corona. However, it does not show any symptoms.

Doctors said he was enrolled in a special ward for patients suspected of South African mutations. His genetic sequence report has returned positive for the new mutation. The patient needs no oxygen support, he is asymptomatic. Doctors said the infection would be kept aside to help spread the infection to others.

On Monday, 368 new coronavirus infections were reported in Delhi, with an infection rate of 0.59 percent. According to a health bulletin issued by the Department of Health, there are more than 400 cases of infection every day for the fourth consecutive day. There were 419 new infections in Delhi on Saturday and 407 on Sunday.

According to the Health Department Bulletin, three more Kovid-19 patients died on Monday in the capital, with the death toll rising to 10,944. According to the report, the number of infected people in Delhi has increased to 6,44,064 after new cases were reported in the same period. At the same time, more than 6.30 lakh people have recovered from the disease so far. According to Health Bulletin, there are 2,321 active patients in Delhi. As many as 62,272 samples were tested Sunday in the city. There are currently 1,342 patients in Delhi on home segregation.

‘If the positivity rate in Delhi is less than 1%, the situation is under control’

Delhi Health Minister Satyender Jain on Monday said the epidemic in the capital is under control, as the rate of positivity is less than 1%. Jain said the current rate of positivity in Delhi is less than one per cent. We are cautious, but if the rate of positivity is less than one percent, the situation is under control. Jain said the situation is different in Maharashtra and some other states where high positive rates are being recorded.

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