Delhi registered 356 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Monday, the sharpest single-day spike that took the capital's tally to 1,510. Four more people have died, taking the total to 28, health officials said.
The number of containment zones in the national capital has now increased to 47 after the inclusion of new areas including Sant Nagar and Burari among others, news agency ANI reported.
The Delhi government on Monday launched a massive sanitisation drive in the city's COVID-19 containment areas, declared as red zones, and high-risk zones, identified as orange zones, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The administration ran a pilot disinfection drive using hi-tech Japanese spray machines at the Rajinder Nagar Assembly constituency.
The state government also announced an ambitious plan to send task forces of 5 members to every single home in the city to identify suspected COVID-19 cases.
Nearly 14,000 such teams of "Corona Foot Warriors Containment and Surveillance Force'" will be formed at the election-booth level, a Delhi government official told news agency PTI.
Each team will have five members including a booth-level officer, civil defence volunteer, police constable, sanitation and anganwadi worker, the official said.
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