The Delhi government will accumulate hours of operation at its clinics and clinics over two hours so that more Covid-19 tests can be performed, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said Friday, detailing how the administration plans to speed up a procedure that the leading minister. has described the city’s combat in the face of the epidemic.
This resolution was triggered by a stable accumulation in the number of instances. The city added the maximum of instances, 1,840, in 48 days on Thursday, and until Friday, that number was less than 1808.
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After adjusting the first primary region to record a sustained drop in cases, the nation’s capital experienced an increase this month, leading Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to hold an emergency assembly on Wednesday in which the verification rate would double from the existing one. levels at about 40,000 a day next week.
“We asked all of our clinics and our PUHC (Primary Urban Fitness Center) seeds to begin testing patients between nine in the morning and two in the afternoon, five to three hours earlier. That’s where numbers would increase most often,” Jain said. Friday.
The management has 265 clinics and offices, in addition to the hospitals it manages.
“All government hospitals in Delhi are also testing others for Covid-1nine between nine in the morning and two in the afternoon. And it’ll be free. Anyone can get tested, even if they suspect they can have it. through cell vans, camps and containment spaces occur in most cases. We said that 40,000 – if each of the constant centers tests a hundred more people a day, hospitals to two hundred other people a day and more tests are carried out on the network, the numbers are not difficult to discover,” Jain said.
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Shortly after Wednesday’s announcement, government officials said the plan to proportionally build immediate antigenic testing at the site and RT-PCR lab tests are considered to be more reliable, but take longer and charge more than antigen testing. effects within 15 to 30 minutes, while laboratory tests can take up to a day depending on the number of samples and the capacity of the machine.
The minister stated that the government had enough immediate antigen test kits and that approved laboratories had RT-PCR kits good enough to perform daily testing. The positivity rate, the proportion of other people who tested positive, also increased during the month, from an average of 5. 7% in the last week of July to 8% in the last seven days.
The plan for the construction soon tests the subject of a confrontation between the Delhi government and the Union Ministry of the Interior (MHA). The Health Minister wrote to the MHA on Thursday urging it not to interfere with the Kejriwal government’s resolution. The MHA later tweeted that the accusation was “false and baseless”, prompting Jain to reply in a tweet: “I hope that The officials comply with this message from the MHA I am sure the officials, who were hesitant to build the tests today, which increases the certainty of the MHA, will promptly build the tests in Delhi.
In a statement, the MHA said that only a technical recommendation had been requested from a committee of experts in the memorandum of Senior Health Secretary Vikram Dev Dutt, who cited senior government officials to citing tension on the part of the MHA.
A copy of the note viewed through HT reads: “Advice will possibly be slain to the Committee of Experts/MHA on the following aspects: Taking into account the current Covid-19 scenario and the trajectory of the instances in Delhi, whether the construction in the number of tests to be carried out and, if so, to what extent. “
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