the highest in over seven months, with a positivity rate of 19.93 per cent, the Delhi government’s health department said in its bulletin. With an uptick in cases, the city also registered two deaths of Covid positive people, however, "Covid finding was incidental", the bulletin added.

The numbers are the highest since August last year when 620 cases in a day were reported in its last week. The latest counting is an increase of 127 cases compared to Thursday when 606 cases were reported, with one fatality.

At present, Delhi’s Covid-19 death toll stands at 26,536, according to the bulletin. With the latest data, the city's infection tally has risen to 20,13,403. A total of 3,678 Covid tests were conducted on Thursday, as per data.