Satyendar Jain said the AAP government is focused on multiplying the COVID-19 test from the present 20,000 every day to 40,000 every day inside seven days in the public capital.
The Delhi government will scale up COVID-19 testing through its system of 300 dispensaries and medical clinics, and start forceful contact following of coronavirus patients in the city, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Friday.
The wellbeing pastor said the AAP government is focused on multiplying the COVID-19 test from the present 20,000 every day to 40,000 every day inside seven days in the public capital.
Jain said the ongoing increment in the number of COVID-19 cases in Delhi was because of different reasons, including patients from outside looking for treatment here, return of transients who left Delhi during lockdown just as expanded testing.
“Individuals can have free COVID-19 tests at the dispensaries whose time has been reached out to five hours from 9 AM to 2 PM. Regardless of whether dispensaries direct on normal 100 tests and emergency clinics 200 tests for every day, the objective of scaling up testing to day by day 40,000 from the presently around 20,000, will be met,” he said when asked how the government intends to scale up testing in the city. He said 300 dispensaries and emergency clinics are directing free COVID-19 by and by.
The administration will likewise make mindfulness about this move. Testing in control zones and areas will go next to each other, and he told journalists.
“By and by, out of 3,700 crown patients in Delhi government emergency clinics, around 30 per cent of patients are from different states. Additionally, the number of tests were lower as individuals remained at home during the ongoing celebrations. Presently tests have expanded thus has the number of positive cases,” he said.
His remarks come days after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said COVID-19 tests would be multiplied taking into account the “negligible” increment in coronavirus cases in the city.
“Delhi has the most noteworthy pace of per million testings in the nation. We are dealing with the methodology of forceful contact following and testing, and Corona will be checked if the procedure succeeds. In the wake of multiplying the number of tests to 40,000 we will follow and test all the contacts of COVID-19 patients,” he said.
The wellbeing pastor said Delhi was still “mostly behind” the pinnacle of the pandemic and the ascent in the number of positive cases in a most recent couple of days was not a second influx of the COVID-19 contamination as was guaranteed by individual specialists.
“Its a brief length rise. Delhi is still mostly behind the pinnacle. The energy rate is around 7 per cent which at one purpose of time was 30 per cent,” he said.
Jain said the legislature has the accessibility of the sufficient number of units to twofold the testing to 40,000 every day.