Former IMA secretary urges Delhiites to act responsibly amid rising COVID-19 cases

former secretary of Indian Medical Association (IMA), Dr. Ravi Malik on Saturday asserted that re is a need to guard against carelessness in battle against COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi. Malik furr vised people to be careful as air pollution is rising in national capital.

"Carelessness has slowly crept inside people's mentality regarding COVID-19. We have started seeing public garing and large scale functions. We are witnessing rise of cases in Delhi. At this time, people should be careful because pollution has also started rising and re is smog," Dr Malik told ANI.

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'Each one should act responsibly'

ding furr he said during winter season, respiratory illness spres quickly and each one should act responsibly and regain momentum that y h earlier. He also said last pandemic came in four waves and lasted nearly three years.

While commenting on  rise in COVID-19 cases in Delhi for past few days and total count of COVID cases in country surpassing 87.73 lakh, Dr. Malik said re is a need to learn from some European countries who have been forced to impose lockdown again due to growing number of cases and y were struggling to deal with virus despite availability of resources.

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"If y are forced to impose a lockdown n we are t any different. Everybody should be personally accountable for oneself. And this surge of cases must be curbed," he said.

He also asked Delhi residents t to underestimate air pollution. For some reason, people are taking air pollution lightly, he said. Air pollution will attack lungs and COVID-19 will also attack lungs, he ded. Due to air pollution, re are high chances for COVID-19 related deaths to increase and in order to curb spre people need to man situation by doing ir bit including government, he said.

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COVID-19 situation in Delhi

On Saturday, Delhi recorded 7,340 COVID-19 cases in a day taking infection tally to over 4.82 lakh. With 96 new fatalities during same period, death toll in city rose to 7,519, according to authorities.

se fresh cases were discovered from 49,645 tests, including 19,635 RT-PCR ones, conducted previous day and positivity rate in city was 14.78 percent amid festivities and rising pollution, according to a bulletin issued by Delhi health department.

On Wednesday, highest single-day spike of 8,593 cases was recorded with 85 fatalities recorded on same day. On vember 12, number of fatalities was 104, highest in over five months. On Saturday, 96 more fatalities were recorded, pushing death toll in national capital to 7,519, bulletin said. tally of active cases in national capital on Saturday rose to 44,456 from 44,329 previous day.

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(With ANI inputs) (Im-ANI)