New Delhi: As coronavirus cases continue to mount in the national capital, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain on Tuesday said the source of infection is “not known” in nearly half of the fresh cases being reported.
Interacting with reporters, he also said that the Kejriwal government is making all the preparations to handle the huge rush of patients estimated by June end.
When asked if Delhi has reached community transmission level as far as coronavirus infection is concerned, he said declaration on this is made by the Centre.
“Epidemiologically, community transmission is the third stage of the infection…In Delhi, of the new cases being reported, in nearly half of these cases, the source of infection is not known,” he said.
Later, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia told media persons that officials from the Centre have said that there is no community transmission of coronavirus in Delhi.
The national capital recorded 1,007 fresh coronavirus cases on Monday, taking the COVID-19 tally in the city to over 29,000-mark, and the death toll due to the disease mounted to 874, authorities said.
The highest spike of 1,513 fresh cases was recorded on June 3.
Asked about Lt Governor Anil Baijal overturning the Delhi government’s order to reserve hospitals only for residents of Delhi, he said, “Cases are growing so fast every day, and existing hospital beds will soon get swamped, where will people of Delhi go then.”
Jain alleged that the orders were overturned by the LG “under pressure from the BJP”.
He also claimed that the Delhi government had told the Centre to halt flight services much earlier, when coronavirus cases were beginning to be recorded in the country, “but those services were stopped 15 days later”.
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Asked what measures are taken if the infection reaches community transmission level, the heath minister said, “Stress is then laid more on treatment, currently we are doing more rigours contact tracing to stop infection from spreading.”
On private hospitals situation, he said most of the facilities are already full to capacity but a large number of beds will be required in Delhi in coming weeks.
An order has been issued for constituting a District Core Team for containing the spread of COVID-19 infection in the four districts North West Delhi, Central Delhi, West Delhi and North Delhi, where high active cases and high surge of cases are being reported, the authorities said on Monday.
Jain said on Monday had told reporters, the current doubling rate of coronavirus infection transmission here is 14 days and so the national capital as per that estimation will see over 56,000 cases by the end of next two weeks.
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When Will Covid-19 Loosen Or Weaken Its Grip In India?
The year 2020 has introduced world to unthinkable catastrophic woes. The pain has been and is continuing to be huge. The reference is to pandemic Covid-19 which has spread to every nook and corner of the world. World Health Organisation on 14 January 2020 gave news of arrival of a health worrisome concern in the shape of something they designated as Covid-19 pandemic. But the world began to realize its presence closely on the ground around mid-March 2020. Since then , the world has been put to disarray , racing to find an answer to the dreadful new disease , be it through development of an effective vaccine or a drug. Over a dozen countries are engaged day and night to develop the vaccine while only few are expecting to bring vaccine in the market by the end of the year 2020. A pragmatic view , however , is that the process of vaccine coming in the market can take larger part of 2021 if not first half of 2022. Regarding drug , there have been talks that something is being hammered out. The expectation is that something might arrive early in days to come in 2020. In the absence of vaccine or effective drug , the world has taken recourse to lockdown , social distancing , masking the portion of mouth as well as nose , washing hands several times a day and the like. These measures taken in recent past in India from 24 March midnight in 2020 onwards can be said to have contributed to containing spread of the pandemic in proportion to seriousness and sufficiency attached. But nevertheless , the world cannot remain shut for a longer period for obvious reasons. So some spread has been there chunk confined so far to some metropolitan or congested- thickly populated slums in urban cities. A question being asked in June 2020 when it is getting stronger and wider in infecting the people – when will its grip loosen or weaken substantially ?.
Readers are first taken to this Vedic astrology writer’s predictive alerts in hitherto well-known article – “ Predictions for coming year 2020 by kushal kumar” – published last year 2019 on 10 October at theindiapost.com/articles/predictions-for-coming-year-2020-by-kushal-kumar/. The article covering India was published on 10 October , 2019 when Covid-19 was undoubtedly not born. And at that stage of time , this writer was very clear while alerting about something catastrophic likely to visit near about mid-March to last until June in 2020 . The worrisome period was indicated covering three and a half months from mid-March to June 2020 about Italy at http://www.astralis.it/Kumar02.htm , while about India the related predictive text is reproduced from the aforesaid article published on 10 October , 2019 :-
“ The next three months from April to June 2020 appears to be a period of time testing ‘ patience’ and ‘perseverance’ , introducing several parts of the country to worrisome concerns…………………”. In the month of June , 2020 , readers may be interested to know the latest predictive view of this writer with reference to Covid-19 in particular. Their interest can be understood because at the stage the predictive alerts were made by this writer on 10 October , 2019 , Covid-19 pandemic was not in the scene. Readers may note that this writer’s predictive view remains intact what it was on 10 October , 2019 . However , there is scope of addressing the situation in better refreshed details here. Keeping in view the contemporary planetary postures about India , it can be said that month of June upto 20 June , 2020 , may be stressful more than what April-May 2020 have been , calling for increased patience , resolve and appropriate strategy in the absence of effective drug. After 20 June 2020 , this writer does not foresee easy and sudden or overnight change in the worrisome landscape , but some positive scenario may generate for July –October , 2020. Last ten days of June and after in 2020 , the battle may look to be bringing some ammunition to fight. It seems 11 July , 2020 and soon after may loosen the grip of Covid-19 in India , how much and to what extent it may be , this writer must not say which is not within radar. Having said that , readers may be refreshed with this writer’s predictive content about India for July-October 2020 published in the article on 10 October , 2020 , as follows :-
“ Now something encouraging. The second half of the year from July to October or November 2020 looks to be addressing the setbacks or delay of the past , particularly those of first half. Some trends of success or forward movement in economic sector , political issues are likely. Cooperation or support of global powers may be seen coming. Some historic political decision is likely. The obstructive forces may weaken to some extent. Like the previous year , acceptance by global community of India’s positive role in world affairs may be in the news. It seems the said period of second half in 2020 can boost up the ambitious side of the nation. Such knowledge or stuff related thereto as Yoga , Ayurveda , herbals and spiritual side addressing material issues like health can attract meaningful emphasis. Efforts made in space program are likely to meet with success bringing name”. Here , reference to Ayurveda , herbals may include reference to indigenously developed or manufactured vaccine or drug.