Fighting COVID-19: Delhi to feed about 4 lakh people daily, preps to tackle if COVID-19 cases rise, says Arvind Kejriwal

The Delhi government has arranged to serve lunch and dinner to the needy in 325 schools in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday amid reports of people going hungry without access to food during the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

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Updated : 27 March 2020, 2:07 PM IST

Fighting COVID-19: Delhi to feed about 4 lakh people daily, preps to tackle if COVID-19 cases rise, says Arvind Kejriwal

New Delhi: The Delhi government has arranged to serve lunch and dinner to the needy in 325 schools in Delhi, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Friday amid reports of people going hungry without access to food during the ongoing nationwide lockdown.

From Saturday, arrangements will be put in place to feed about four lakh people daily at different centres across Delhi, he said addressing the media.

We are also enhancing capacity to make sure no one goes hungry during the lockdown

Until yday we were feeding 20k people in 224 shelters

From today we will feed 2 L people through an addl network of 325 Delhi govt schools

Tomorrow onwards we will be able to feed 4 lakh people.

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 27, 2020

"We have made arrangements to provide lunch and dinner in 325 schools. Around 500 people will be provided with food in all these schools. So far we were providing food to 20,000 people daily, the number will now increase to around 2,00,000 from today."

He also said that "from tomorrow, we'll be providing food to 4,00,000 people daily. We're distributing the centres across Delhi."

Stating that the total number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in Delhi is now 39, Kejriwal said "We are ready to face any challenge.".

अगर दिल्ली में करोना के केस बहुत ज़्यादा बढ़ते हैं तो हमें क्या करना है - हमारी doctors की टीम ने उसका पूरा प्लान बना लिया है। हम किसी भी स्थिति का मुक़ाबला करने के लिए तैयार हैं। आज इस प्लान के मुख्य बिंदु आपके साथ साझा करूँगा। LIVE address https://t.co/rbZHGCRUXM

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) March 27, 2020

"There are a total of 39 coronavirus positive cases in Delhi as of today, of which 29 cases are of those who had come from outside and were kept in quarantine and 10 of these were cases of local transmission," said Kejriwal at a press conference.

The Chief Minister said that a team of 5 doctors has been set up to look into the preparedness needed to deal with an increase in the number of positive cases for coronavirus in future.

He said, "The team of doctors under the chairmanship of Dr Shiv Kumar Sarin, the head of Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences, presented a detailed report on March 26 on the preparedness needed to deal with a situation if the number of positive cases for coronavirus increases."

"The report has categorized three situations - if the number of positive cases increases to 100 per day, 500 per day and 1000 per day," he said while adding that the doctors have clearly stated what preparedness should be taken for each situation including the number of ventilators, isolation beds, doctors and nurses required.

He also cited concerns raised by chief ministers of several states including Jharkhand's Hemant Soren and West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee. Kejriwal said "we consider all those living in Delhi as Delhiites and everyone will be taken care of."

The number of cases tested positive for coronavirus rose to 724 on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. (ANI)

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27 March 2020, 2:07 PM IST

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Fighting COVID-19: Delhi to feed about 4 lakh people daily, preps to tackle if COVID-19 cases rise, says Arvind Kejriwal