New Delhi:
Interior Minister Amit Shah will hold all all-party meetings tomorrow to review the management of coronavirus in the national capital region, which includes Delhi and parts of Uttar Pradesh and parts of the Haryana. The meeting, an official note said, will take place at 11:00 am in the North Block. Invited parties include the ruling Aam Aadmi party from Delhi, Congress, the BJP, the Bahujan Samaj party from Mayawati and the Samajwadi party from Akhilesh Yadav.
This meeting follows restrictions imposed by the Supreme Court on Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu – states with the highest incidence of coronavirus.
Neighboring Uttar Pradesh and Haryana had sealed the border with Delhi, saying that the movement of people to and from the national capital was spreading infection in the states.
Uttar Pradesh told the Supreme Court on Friday that it would maintain travel restrictions because there are 40 times more cases of COVID-19 in the national capital compared to Noida and Ghaziabad. Haryana has said that she will allow everyone to travel to and from Delhi without restrictions.
This morning, Mr. Shah announced a series of measures for Delhi after a meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan and representatives from the National Disaster Management Committee were also present at the meeting.
The measures included the immediate availability of 500 train cars, to increase the number of beds available for coronavirus patients, and testing facilities to increase the number that had slipped last week. The national capital, the ministers decided, will soon receive random test kits to increase the number of coronavirus tests.