Have made preparations to deal with up to 1 lakh cases daily: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal amid Omicron scare
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting on Thursday on the rise in cases of the coronavirus and its variant Omicron, and directed officials to wrap up preparations to tackle any surge, including building the capacity to follow up on over one lakh positive persons in home isolation.
The meeting was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Health Minister Satyendar Jain, Revenue Minister Kailash Gahlot and senior officials.
We have created a capacity to conduct 3 lakh tests daily and with our preparations, we can handle as many as 1 lakh daily cases if such a situation arises, the Delhi CM said.
He further said that the AAP government is strengthening home isolation management protocol and urged people with mild symptoms to stay at home, don’t rush to the hospital.
“Under our home isolation module, our healthcare workers will visit patients at their residence, conduct tele-counselling and also give a kit containing oximeter etc to them,” he added.
Addressing the media, Kejriwal said that the government increasing our manpower, stocking medicines for the coming few months.
On oxygen availability, he said that the government is arranging medical oxygen and 15 oxygen tankers will be delivered to us in the next 3 weeks.
