Published 13:43 IST, July 5th 2020

'Whole country with Centre on India-China issue; wants to teach it a lesson': CM Kejriwal

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal during his visit to Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel COVID19 Hospital slammed China and said that whole of India wants to teach it a lesson.

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Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday visited DRDO-built Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel COVID19 Hospital in Delhi Cantonment along with Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh along with or Union Ministers. Chief Minister said that hospital will help patients a lot and called it "an important" hospital, ding that number of ICU beds are limited and beds in hospital will be very critical.

'...wants to teach China a lesson'

"For w, re is scarcity of hospital beds, we have over 15,000 beds out of which 5300 are occupied. re is a paucity of ICU beds. If re is any spike in COVID cases, se ICU beds are very critical for us," Chief Minister said. Later, Kejriwal took to Twitter and thanked Centre on behalf of people of Delhi.

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Speaking about India-China border dispute, he said, "What China did at border is t right. Our whole country is with Centre on this issue and wants to teach China a lesson."

Last month, Arvind Kejriwal while dressing state said that India is fighting two wars against China. He said one of m is being fought at border and or one against virus which has been spre by country. Kejriwal said that as India's 20 brave soldiers did t back down while fighting Chinese, similarity, country will also t retreat and will both wars.

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'Our country is fighting two wars against China'

Kejriwal said, "We are fighting two wars against China- one against virus which has been sent by China and or one at border. Our doctors and nurses are fighting war against virus and our soldiers are fighting at border. We Indians stand with doctors and soldiers and we have to fight se wars toger. re should be politics in this. India needs to be united. Our soldiers did t back out and even we won't until we win both wars."

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Meanwhile, Delhi's COVID-19 tally has reached 94,695. Out of total cases, 26,148 are active, 65,624 have been cured and 2,923 have died so far after contracting infection, according to Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry.

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(With ncy inputs)

13:43 IST, July 5th 2020