Rahul Gandhi comes up with suggestions to combat coronavirus [VIDEO]

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday addressed a press conference via video-conferencing on the current situation arising out of the coronavirus pandemic. "Lockdown is in no way a solution to the COVID 19. Lockdown is like a pause button. When we come out of the lockdown, the virus is going to start its work again," he said. He added that "To fight against coronavirus, our main force is working at the state and district levels. Success has been achieved in Wayanad, Kerala because of the effective machinery at the district level." Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi said that "Now we've reached a level, where we are in an emergency situation. India must unite and fight against it. My main suggestion is that blunt instruments must not be used. We must work strategically. Lockdown has not resolved the problem, it has only postponed the problem."

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"The biggest weapon against the novel coronavirus is testing-testing at scale so you know where the virus is moving and you can isolate, target and fight it. Our testing rate is 199 out of a million, all tests that we've done in the last 72 days, works out to approximately average of 350 tests per district," he added. He further suggested that "If you want to fight the coronavirus, you have to increase the testing dramatically and your testing has to go from chasing the virus to moving ahead of it. You've to move to random testing and pre-empt where the virus is moving." Also Read | Coronavirus cases in India cross 12,000 mark, death toll 414 "Push testing aggressively and use testing strategically, to assist the states in their fight, use it not to just track patients but to create a map of India to see where the virus is moving," he said. "I disagree with Narendra Modi with a lot of issues but now is not the time to fight. Unite and fight the virus," he concluded. -PTC News