Reportedly delhi chief minister arvind kejriwal on sunday announced that the lockdown will continue as usual in delhi and no relaxations will be allowed before a review meeting of experts on april 27. kejriwal said “Delhi has 11 districts and all of them have been declared hotspots. As per the central government, restrictions cannot be relaxed in containment zones".

 

He added "Keeping in mind the lives of all delhi residents, we have that there will be no relaxation in lockdown norms from tomorrow. We will sit in a meeting with all experts again on april 27 and review the situation. If need be, the lockdown norms will be relaxed after that". At present, delhi has over 75 hotspots where strict lockdown guidelines are in place. kejriwal said there are around 1,900 cases in delhi at present, out of which 26 people are in ICU and six are on ventilator support and 43 have died.

 

He indicated that the numbers could increase if the lockdown is relaxed and added that it will become extremely difficult to treat people if cases rise exponentially. kejriwal said relaxing lockdown restrictions now may result in further rise in cases and said, "We have decided to keep people of delhi safe, the lockdown will remain, there will be no relaxation. Will review again after a week." delhi government will start a massive sanitisation drive in the city’s Covid-19 containment zones, declared as ‘Red Zones’ and the high-risk zones, identified as ‘Orange Zones’ from monday, chief minister arvind kejriwal said. According to the government, 34 hotspots in the national capital have been identified as Covid-19 containment zones. Addressing an online briefing, kejriwal said, "We have declared Covid-19 containment zones as 'Red Zones' and high-risk zones as 'Orange Zones' We have identified more containment zones in the national capital.”

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