The national capital witnessed a dip in the new COVID-19 cases with 1,447 fresh infections recorded in the last 24 hours, according to a health bulletin by the Delhi government on Friday.
The city had recorded 1,934 new cases yesterday.
With this, the active cases in the city are reduced from 5,755 cases on Thursday to 5,507 today.
As many as 24,203 COVID tests were conducted in the last 24 hours with a daily case positivity rate of 5.98 per cent, which was 8.10 per cent on Thursday.
According to the bulletin, 1,694 patients recovered from the disease during this period. The total number of recoveries in the city since the beginning of the pandemic rose to 18,97,091.
One COVID patient succumbed to the virus. The death toll stands at 26,243.