Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday expressed hope that, based on positive signs over the last four-five days, Delhi was crossing the third peak of the coronavirus disease, with the positivity rate of tests and the number of infections consistently declining during this period. The cases in Delhi have mounted in their third and the deadliest wave so far, with the positivity rate spiking to 15%. The Delhi government recently sought tighter curbs on weddings in city and asked the Union government for approval to lock down market places if they were turning into hot spots.
Kejriwal said that his government was in the process of creating a health information management system that will integrate and track hospitals and other such facilities across the Capital. “All Delhi government hospitals, mohalla clinics, poly clinics... all will be connected with each other. At the click of a button, you will know on the cloud… what all is available at which hospital. All citizens will be given e-cards and their medical history will be available on the cloud... I hope we will be able to implement it in a year.”
Kejriwal said the fundamentals of the “Delhi model” that his government devised to fight the pandemic which includes testing, home isolation, public data, hospital beds, and plasma therapy, remained strong even today and the current situation did not go out of control because of the robustness of this strategy.
On Friday, Delhi recorded 6,608 fresh Covid-19 cases, taking the infection tally to 517,238, while 118 deaths in a day pushed the death toll to 8,159.
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