New Delhi:
Amid surge COVID-19 cases in Delhi, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has decided to hold an urgent meeting on Friday for discussing action plan to fight the pandemic, including issues like containment zones, vaccination drive, and maintaining availability of hospital beds. Health Minister Satyendar Jain along with his department officials, will be a part of the meeting. The departmental officials have also been instructed to prepare and present an action plan to tackle the pandemic.
“CM Kejriwal is keeping a close eye on the situation of Delhi, and is ensuring a daily review by receiving regular updates from the officials. In furtherance to the orders given by CM Kejriwal, the health department has increased its vigilance measures, and has taken a number of monumental steps to combat Covid-19,” noted a statement issued by the Delhi government.
It is worth mentioning that on the directions given by the CM, beds in 33 private hospitals have been increased by 25% for ICU, and 25% for normal ward beds respectively. These 33 hospitals posesser 1705 beds until 30th March 2021, and post the aforementioned order, they have now been increased upto 2547. The Covid designated beds for normal wards have had a plus of 842, and ICU beds, which were 608 until March 30, have been allotted 230 more beds. Thus, the total number of COVID designated ICU beds are now 838 in these 33 private hospitals.
“Surveillance and monitoring teams have been sternly observing the situation at the district level. Moreover, tracing of upto a minimum of 30 contacts of those who have been tested positive will be done. They will also be required to isolate themselves so that the spread can be contained at the initial stage.
“It has been observed that the stated protocols and guidelines by the Delhi government are not being followed in a number of public places, and have been showing negligence regarding wearing masks. The CM has announced that stringent action will be taken against those found without masks in public,” added the statement.
At the district level, the surveillance teams are overseeing that the people follow Covid appropriate behaviour, the most important one being that they wear masks. After the orders given by CM Kejriwal, the target of conducting as many as 80,000 tests has been set on a daily basis, so as to contain the spread of the virus.
