COVID-19: Delhi lockdown extended for every week, says CM Kejriwal
Lockdown in Delhi has been additional extended by every week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal stated on Sunday. “We are extending the lockdown by one more week in Delhi,” the chief minister stated at the moment. Delhi recorded 6,430 new COVID-19 instances and 337 extra fatalities on Saturday whereas the positivity price dipped to 11.32 per cent, authorities stated. The nationwide capital had recorded 8,506 new instances on Friday and a positivity price of 12.40 per cent.
As many as 289 extra sufferers had succumbed to the illness on Friday, in line with a well being bulletin.
Meanwhile, docs at main authorities and personal hospitals in Delhi stated there’s a relative fall in the variety of instances and “still a long way to go” earlier than the every day depend falls beneath the two,000-mark, because it was just a few months earlier.
“Lockdown, I would say is the biggest factor in arriving at a situation where we are now, when daily cases from 28,000 have come down to about 8,500. However, it is still a huge figure, and there should be no room for complacency, on any front,” Medical Director of Rajiv Gandhi Super Speciality Hospital (RGSSH), BL Sherwal stated.
RGSSH is a Delhi government-run 650-bed facility, and about 500 beds are earmarked for treating COVID sufferers, and 350 are at the moment occupied, most of them being ICU sufferers, he stated.
Asked in regards to the variety of every day fatalities on the facility situated in east Delhi, Sherwal stated, about 10-12 sufferers per day, out of the 350 beds occupied as of now, which might quickly be expanded to full capability.
