Lockdown is not a solution: Satyendra Jain

Covid-19Lockdown is not a solution: Satyendra Jain

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Lockdown is not a solution: Satyendra Jain

New Delhi: Amid rising corona cases in Delhi, Health Minister Satyendra Jain, while dismissing the possibility of lockdown, said that the lockdown is not a solution to the corona virus. He believed that there was a logic behind the lockdown. At that time nobody knew how the virus spread. It was then said that there is a 14-day cycle from being infected to ending.

He said that the expert then believed that if the activity was locked for 21 days, the virus would stop spreading. So the lockdown continued to increase, but the corona did not end despite this. According to the Health Minister of Delhi, I think lock-down is not the solution.

“It follows a 14-day cycle — between a person catching the infection and recovering from it. Experts said the virus will die if a lockdown is imposed for 21 days,” Jain told reporters.

“Authorities kept on extending the lockdown, but the virus did not die. I don’t think lockdown is a solution,” he said.

There is “no possibility” of imposing another lockdown in the city, Jain said.

The minister added that there were enough hospital beds available for coronavirus patients and it could be increased if the need arises.

Delhi reported over 1,500 coronavirus cases for the second day on the trot on Friday, while nine more people, highest in around two months, succumbed to the pathogen, the Health Department said.

The 1,534 new infections pushed the tally to 6,54,276, while over 6.36 lakh patients have recovered from the virus. This is the highest number of cases since December 16 when 1,547 people tested positive, according to official data.

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