Home Minister Amit Shah tests positive for Coronavirus; gets admitted to Medanta hospital

UPDATE at 7:00 PM

Sources have confirmed that  Home Minister Amit Shah was present in the last Cabinet Meeting where social distancing was strictly followed along with wearing of masks. Sources added that there was a strict protocol at PM residence in the last few months with temperature checks, Aarogya Setu checks, no use of internal cars to ferry people being some of the measures adopted. Most physical meetings are avoided and VCs are preferred instead, report sources.

In a major development, Home Minister Amit Shah, on Sunday, confirmed that he has tested positive for Coronavirus. He added that he is doing well but has been admitted to the hospital on the advice of his doctors. He urged people who came in contact with him to isolate themselves and get tested. Sources report that Shah has been admitted to Gurugram-based Medanta Hospital.

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Amit Shah takes over Delhi's COVID battle

In June, with the rapid increase in Delhi's cases and its COVID positivity, Home Minister Amit Shah ordered Delhi govt to cap the COVID testing rate at Rs 2400. Moreover, he ramped up testing increasing from 4000-5000 daily to 16,618 samples in two days - June 15 and 16, later tripling it 20,000 tests/day - which is Delhi's current testing rate. Here are some of the other key decisions by the Centre -

• A door-to-door health survey will be conducted in Delhi's containment zones
• 500 railway coaches have been alloted which will increase Delhi Hospital's capacity by 8,000 beds.
• Transfer of 4 IAS officers -  Awanish Kumar & Monica Priyadarshini from Andaman & Nicobar, and Gaurav Singh Rajawat & Vikram Singh Mallik from Arunachal Pradesh to New Delhi to assist in COVID management
• MHA has directed attachment to Delhi Government of two senior IAS officers -  SCL Das and SS Yadav from Centre
• Delhi will be given priority to test COVID-19 patients via Rapid Antigen method, approved by ICMR.
• Revised containment strategy recommended by the V K Paul Committee - redrawing the containment zones
• India's largest COVID Care facility at the Radha Soami Satsang Beas was set up, while a 1000-bed COVID hospital with 250 ICU beds, to be operated by the Armed Forces Medical Services too was constructed within 12 days.

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Delhi's current COVID-19 scenario

Delhi recorded 961 fresh cases of the novel coronavirus on Sunday taking the infection tally to over 1.37 lakh, while the death toll mounted to 4,004, authorities said. As many as 1,23,317 patients have recovered, migrated or been discharged while the number of active cases stood at 10,356. Fifteen people died of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 4,004, they said. The infection tally stood at 1,37,677. A total of 4,289 RT-PCR and 8,441 rapid antigen tests were conducted in the last 24 hours, they said.

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Major politicians wished for Shah's speedy recovery:

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Politicians across the aisle to wish for his recovery