The Delhi government on Monday announced a six-day lockdown in the national capital to help break the chain.
Addressing the residents, CM Arvind Kejriwal said, “Delhi is faring well in tests per million but is seeing a dearth of key drugs and hospital beds. Delhi’s health system is under intense stress, we have to reverse this,” he said adding, we will have a lockdown for six days from tonight.
Kejriwal also emphasised that he has always been against the lockdown but the current situation has forced him to save the health sector.
He appealed to the migrant workers to stay in Delhi with folded hands. “You will waste your time, money and energy if you scramble to leave the city. I request you to stay put in Delhi,” Kejriwal
On Monday morning, the Delhi government deployed two teams of officers to monitor procurement and supply of oxygen and the Remdesivir drug amid a shortage of both following an exponential rise in COVID-19 cases here.
The national capital on Sunday recorded the biggest jump in its daily COVID-19 tally with 25,462 fresh cases, while the positivity rate shot up to 29.74 per cent.
Earlier, Kejriwal wrote toPrime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal urging them to ramp up bed capacity in central government- run hospitals and to ensure “uninterrupted” supply of medical oxygen.
“The Covid situation has become very serious in Delhi. There is a huge shortage of beds and oxygen. I request that at least 7,000 out of 10,000 beds in central government hospitals in Delhi be reserved for Covid patients and oxygen be immediately provided in Delhi,” he wrote to the PM.
