New Delhi: With the spread of Covid-19 on the surge, the Delhi Government under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is leaving no stone unturned to protect its citizens. Kejriwal chaired a high-level review meeting on Thursday to assess the COVID situation and take stock of the government’s preparedness.
The CM sought all information about the availability of oxygen, beds and other critical facilities and equipment from health department officials and gave directions to ramp up preparedness in terms of infrastructure and awareness as per the situation. He directed the health department to keep a close watch on Covid-19 and warned officials of strict action if any kind of negligence was found in the due course of time.
The meeting was attended by Deputy CM Manish Sisodia who holds the charge of the Health Department as well as the Chief Secretary and senior officers of the concerned departments.
Kejriwal said: "Not a single case of BF.7 variant in Delhi at present, but the AAP Government is fully prepared to deal with any possible situation. The new prevalent variant of Corona in China is BF.7, no case of BF.7 variant has been found in testing so far in Delhi. If the need arises, we can test up to one lakh people daily."
During the meeting, the CM also issued instructions to send all positive cases for genome sequencing, increase precaution dose coverage and manpower in hospitals. He directed officials to take prior approval for procurement of essential items needed and inspect machines in all hospitals.
He said: “I want to assure the people of Delhi that there is no reason to worry as of now. If in a worst case scenario the COVID-19 cases are to rise, then the state government is well equipped to handle the increase in the number of cases."
He added, “One of the main problems during the pandemic last year was the availability of oxygen. On the one hand, oxygen was not available and if it was made available our capacity to store it was very low. This time we have ramped it up and we can store up to 928 metric tons of oxygen" /BI/
