New Delhi: During an all-party meeting to deliberate over the management of the Covid-19 situation in the National Capital Region, Union Home Minister of India Amit Shah and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi today assured that there will be coronavirus testing for all in the national capital; which includes Delhi, parts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of Haryana.
Most parties, cutting across party lines, had priorly demanded more testing, to which the Home Minister said that the coronavirus tests per day in Delhi will reach 18,000 in the next few days.
Running third after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu with the highest COVID-19 cases, Delhi’s tally of infections has touched 41,182 as the number of deaths due to the disease climbed to 1,327.
Today’s meeting comes a day after he held a high-level meeting with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, following which he laid out a number of measures to battle the capital’s COVID-19 crisis.
The parties that attended the meeting at the North Block included Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress, BJP, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party.
The Congress at the meeting, however, demanded that COVID-19 testing to be provided to all and that Rs 10,000 be paid to every family in which a member is infected or in a containment zone. The party also demanded that medical students in their fourth year be used as non-permanent resident doctors. The party said there is a sense of fear among the residents of Delhi and that those wanting to take a COVID-19 test must be facilitated to do the required testing which has been approved.
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