{"id":12641,"date":"2020-06-09T23:19:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=12641"},"modified":"2020-06-09T23:19:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:49:10","slug":"delhi-lg-anil-baijal-holds-all-party-meeting-over-covid-19-situation-in-national-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/?p=12641","title":{"rendered":"Delhi LG Anil Baijal holds all party meeting over COVID-19 situation in national capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Delhi LG Anil Baijal holds all party meeting over COVID-19 situation in national capital<\/h2>\n<div class=\"news-details-img\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive img-right\" src=\"http:\/\/newsonair.com\/writereaddata\/News_Pictures\/STA\/2020\/Jun\/NPIC-202069182345.jpg\" \/>@LtGovDelhi<\/div>\n<p>Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal today held an all party meeting to discuss the present situation with respect to COVID-19 in the national capital and measures to contain its spread.<\/p>\n<p>Issues relating to availability of beds for COVID-19 patients, extensive testing, swift ambulance response and providing critical information in public domain were discussed in the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of tweets, Mr. Baijal said, the meeting was held in a very constructive and harmonious atmosphere and many constructive suggestions were received during the meeting. He emphasized that all of us need to fight this pandemic together.<\/p>\n<p>The Delhi LG underlined the need to conduct thorough contact tracing of affected persons and testing as per Indian Council of Medical Research&#8217;s guidelines for COVID-19 testing without any deviation.<\/p>\n<p>He said, admission of eligible COVID positive patients to be ensured as per government&#8217;s protocol.<\/p>\n<p>He called for timely action for infrastructure and human resource requirement considering possible scenarios to ramp up medical capacity.<\/p>\n<p>He directed all stakeholders to delineate containment zones properly to ensure effective management to contain the spread of infection.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised to follow best practices from others for management of COVID-19 cases in Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting assumes significance, as it is being held in the backdrop of Delhi Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s decision to overrule the Delhi Government&#8217;s decision and allow everyone to get treated in all hospitals across the state.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia met Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal to discuss the COVID situation in the National Capital.<\/p>\n<p>In the meeting of the State Disaster Management Authority held at Lieutenant Governor&#8217;s residence, Mr. Sisodia highlighted the issue of rising number of COVID cases in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to media, after the meeting, he ruled out community transmission of Corona virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi LG Anil Baijal holds all party meeting over COVID-19 situation in national capital @LtGovDelhi Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal today held an all party meeting to discuss the present situation with respect to COVID-19 in the national capital and measures to contain its spread. Issues relating to availability of beds for COVID-19 patients, extensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12642,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions\/12642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udaen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}