Thirteen deaths and 406 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Delhi, taking the toll to 86 and tally to 7,639, according to a health bulletin released by the Delhi government on Tuesday.
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“These deaths are not yesterday’s, they are of the past few days,” Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain told media.
The number of coronavirus-related deaths reported by the Delhi government has been lesser than the data on the number of deaths from hospitals. The Delhi government had said that the hospitals send the number of deaths to a Death Audit Committee appointed by the government and only the committee can certify them and only those would be counted in the health bulletin.
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Mr. Jain said that some hospitals were not sending death summaries to the Delhi government and the government had ordered them to send details of deaths within 24 hours. “We had written to hospitals to send reports of death immediately. Hospitals have started sending death summaries,” the Minister said.
Of the 7,639 cases, 2,512 people have recovered and there are 5,041 active cases.
