Delhi recovery road, as seen in Sunday numbers

to the outbreak. On Sunday -- the data for which was released on Monday -- 26 people succumbed to the disease.

The improvement is also evident in active cases and hospitalisation data. Only 8.38% of Delhi’s total cases, or 10994, are now active (as compared to 25.41%, or 25620, on July 5). And only 2,835 beds are occupied (as compared to 5,250 on the month’s first Sunday).

Experts said the numbers represented things were under control for now. “Although the number of cases could be lower because fewer people were tested, even then Delhi has been showing a declining trend for about two weeks now. The positivity rate is also going down, below 5% would ideally indicate that things are under control,” said Dr Lalit Kant, the former head of epidemiology and communicable diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), who added a cautionary note of the possibility that there could be a resurgence at any time.

“The good thing is, with doctors learning more about the disease and how to manage patients and people having oximeters reaching hospitals on time, the mortality has gone down,” he said. A second expert, too, cautioned that unless people keep up the sort of attention they have paid on precautionary measures such as social distancing and wearing masks, a resurgence might be inevitable. “There have been several instances where the number of cases have started going up after being controlled, like in Kerala,” said Dr Shobha Broor, former head of the department of microbiology at AIIMS, Delhi.