Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath to increase the coronavirus testing rate in his st...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asked Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath to increase the coronavirus testing rate in his state, according to NDTV. In a meeting held to review the coronavirus situation in the Delhi- National Capital Region, Shah also asked the chief ministers of the Capital, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to focus on more testing by adopting rapid antigen tests.
Besides Delhi, the National Capital Region comprises eight districts in two states. The districts in Haryana are Rohtak, Jhajjar, Sonipat,Gurgaon and Faridabad. The ones in Uttar Pradesh include Gautam Buddha Nagar, Ghaziabad and Baghpat. These areas have seen a steady rise in the number of Covid-19 cases.
Among the three states, the testing rate was found to be the lowest in Uttar Pradesh. Shah questioned why the Gautam Buddha Nagar administration was conducting only 72 tests per million of the population, while Ghaziabad had just 78 tests for every million (10 lakh) people.
Adityanath assured the home minister that he has already given instructions to ramp up testing among high-risk workers, who include people employed in the informal sector such as rickshaw drivers and vegetable vendors.
Besides chief ministers Arvind Kejriwal, Manohar Lal Khattar and Adityanath, the meeting was also attended by Union Health Minister...
