The country’s second and Delhi’s fourth wave of Covid-19 took a massive toll on the capital with the month of May accounting for almost every third death in the last 16 months since the first case was detected. June, however, saw the number of deaths come down considerably. The capital’s second state-of-the-art genome sequencing facility was inaugurated at Institute of Liver and Biliary Services (ILBS) by chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday.
Delhi recorded 93 fresh Covid-19 cases and three deaths on Thursday. The positivity rate stood at 0.12%. The three new fatalities have pushed the toll in the city to 25,008. Delhi Police’s Cyber Crime Unit has filed an FIR against a mobile phone application named “Sulli Deals” for putting up pictures of Muslim women without their consent on hosting platform Github.
