Operation SHIELD: Rapid testing kits awaited

Accelerating Covid-19 cases in New Delhi have called for a massive sanitisation drive

Covid-19 affected and high-risk areas have been classified as red and orange zones.

The number of coronavirus containment zones in Delhi rose to 43 on Sunday.

The number of coronavirus cases rose to 1,154 in the national capital while the death toll reached 24

Health minister Satyendra Jain said, rapid testing kits are still awaited

The Delhi government had put the demand for 27000 such kits

Delhi needs extensive testing as the numbers show a new high each day

Meanwhile government has started the sanitisation drive in the identified zones

0 machines from Japan along with 50 Delhi Jal Board machines will be used for the sanitisation drive

The whole sanitisation drive started from Monday is named 'Operation SHIELD'

CM Arvind Kejriwal has claimed that the operation has been successful in Dilshad Garden in northeast Delhi which was a hotspot until now.

"No new case of Covid-19 has been reported in Dilshad Garden in the last 10 days due to Operation SHIELD," the chief minister said.

Sealing, home quarantine, isolation and tracking, essential supply, local sanitisation and door-to-door checking are the key aspects of 'SHIELD'.

Ten more hotspots in the national capital were identified as Covid-19 containment zones or red zones

There are total 43 hotspots in Delhi with southeast Delhi having the most at 12 zones.

"We have declared COVID-19 containment zones as red zones and high-risk zones as orange zones, he said.

East Delhi has nine coronavirus containment zones, followed by Shahdara at five and West Delhi at four.

While south, southwest and central Delhi have three containment zones each

New Delhi and North district each have two such zones.

14,036 people have been tested so far, of which 1,154 have tested positive and  984 reports are awaited.

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