NEW DELHI: With Covid-19 cases rising quickly in Delhi, the Centre has actually asked the AAP government to immediately increase testing, coupled with aggressive security, contact tracing and rigid containment and border control of hotspots after an evaluation of the circumstance by health minister Harsh Vardhan. The Centre’s intervention comes a day after the Delhi government narrowed the screening swimming pool by altering the criteria.
Vardhan stated the situation in Delhi was “worrisome” as testing stayed extremely low despite a high positivity rate of 25.7%(cases confirmed per 100 tests) recently and several districts of the capital reporting figures above 38%. “Increasing cases, high positivity rate and low screening levels in lots of districts are uneasy,” Vardhan stated during the review with senior Delhi government officials through video-conferencing.
Sources said the Centre is concerned over reports