It has been more than a week since Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held meetings and announced several measures on June 14 to ramp up Covid-19 testing and treatment capacities in Delhi.
These announcements came after the Supreme Court on June 12 pulled up the Delhi government for its rigid procedures and low testing numbers. The court issued a notice to the government about poor patient care as well.
As Scroll.in has reported over the past month, patients in Delhi have faced tremendous difficulties in finding beds in public and private hospitals for Covid-19 care as the national capital saw a surge of cases. A visit to two Covid-19 dedicated hospitals in Delhi revealed that relatives were entering wards to care for patients because they were not receiving adequate care from healthcare workers.
As of June 21, Delhi reported 3,000 fresh cases, taking the total count up to 59,746 cases with 2,175 deaths.
What are the changes that have occurred since these slew of announcements?
More testing
Earlier, the Delhi government had limited its testing by issuing guidelines on June 2 that excluded asymptomatic patients from being tested except for those who have comorbidities or are senior citizens. This was, however, overturned by the Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal on June 8 in...
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