COVID-19 "Testing For All" in Delhi, assures Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi on Monday assured that there will be coronavirus testing for all in the national capital. The development comes after an all-party meeting chaired by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, over the management of coronavirus situation, at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).
It also included Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of Haryana. The Home Minister also asserted that the coronavirus tests per day in the national capital will reach 18,000 in the next few days.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that there were many speculations on whether another lockdown in Delhi is being planned or not. "There are no such plans," he clarified.
Delhi is having the third-highest cases of coronavirus after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Delhi's coronavirus tally has reached to 41,182 while the number of deaths due to the pandemic has increased to around 1,327.
The parties that attended the meeting included Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party, the Congress, BJP, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party.
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After the meeting, the Delhi Congress chief said that "Kejriwal had announced of providing compensation of Rs 1 Crores for next of the kin of Corona warriors. But that compensation has not been provided yet. We have requested that the compensation be immediately provided so that they don't lose their morale."
-PTC News
