Delhi Chief Minister has extended the lockdown in the city by another week, making the restrictions stricter. Even the metro services have been suspended this time. The lockdown will be on till 5 am on May 17.
Mr.Kejriwal said the extension is meant to ensure that the city does not let its guard down even though the Covid numbers have dropped marginally.
“The positivity rate has gone down but still we can’t afford leniency. We need to extend to lockdown,” Mr. Arvind Kejriwal said.
While the positivity rate, which stood at 35 per cent in mid-April, has dropped to 23 per cent, doctors say even this is very high and there is a need to completely break the chain of transmission.
Delhi on Sunday recorded 13,336 fresh cases of coronavirus disease, pushing the cumulative tally to 1,323,567. The national capital’s daily death count also fell below 300 on Sunday after 273 fatalities were recorded, the health bulletin showed. A total of 19,344 people have succumbed to the viral disease so far, the bulletin stated.
In Delhi the lockdown is extended for another week & has adopted stricter restrictions to control a new wave of Covid-19 infections as the country battles the world’s fastest-growing outbreak of the virus.
