Kejriwal's 5 Point 'Delhi Model' To Be Implemented In Other States To Curb The Spread Of Covid-19

The Union Health Ministry has said that the Delhi Model has been successful in controlling the spread of the virus and the country needs to emulate the same to improve the situation.

New Delhi: As the 'Delhi model' is being hailed by other states, Union Minister of state from Home G Kishan Reddy lauded the efforts made by the Delhi government to curb the spread of coronavirus and said that all the states in the country need to emulate the "Delhi model" for controlling the pandemic.

"I am requesting the state government (Telangana) to focus on testing, tracing, and treatment. There is a need to increase the number of tests (in Telangana). The more number of the tests, the faster the containment of the disease. You know, Delhi as a union territory I am personally monitoring. There is an 84 percent recovery rate in Delhi. All the states should emulate the Delhi model," he said.

Delhi's Covid model to be implemented in other states

The Union health ministry intends to replicate the “successful Delhi model” in other states with large outbreaks of Covid-19, a Union health ministry official said on Thursday, citing the example of how authorities in the national capital were able to bring down a key metric – the case positivity rate – from 37% in June to 6% this week.

“The improved numbers show that test, trace and treat strategy has worked very well and Delhi is a prime example before us as it managed to successfully contain the disease spread with the help of the center. The situation is being managed in two ways: keeping the infection low, and also keeping the mortality low. Experts have shown that in 80% of the positive cases it is possible to trace close contacts within 72 hours. This model will have to be adopted in other states also,” said Rajesh Bhushan, an officer on special duty, health ministry.

Delhi's rank among most infected cases has gone down from 2 to 12

Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain has said Delhi’s doubling rate of coronavirus cases has now gone up to 50 while across India it is 21 days. Delhi has reported 1,195 new coronavirus cases on Friday while the total stands at 1.35 lakh in the national capital.

The health minister has said, “1,195 cases came on Friday and the total is at 1,35,598 cases in Delhi. Delhi’s number of active cases is at 10,705. Delhi’s active coronavirus case count has now gone down to rank 12 among all states. Delhi earlier ranked number 2 among all states in India.”
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The chief minister Arvind Kejriwal credited a five-point “Delhi Model” – increased testing, home isolation of mild cases, availability of hospital beds, transparency of data, and plasma therapy – for helping the region become one of the few in the country to be able to rein in the outbreak.

Delhi now has 496 containment zones as the next round of serological surveys to trace cases will start on Saturday.  In the last survey, 24% of people were positive.