NEW DELHI: Novel
coronavirus
tests will
be doubled
in
Delhi
in the next two days and subsequently increased by three times, Union Home Minister
Amit Shah said on Sunday after chairing a meeting on the spiralling cases of the
pandemic
in the city.
Shah announced a slew of measures that will
be taken now after he held a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Anil Baija and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at his office
in North Block.
Coronavirus
tests
in
Delhi will
be doubled
in the next two days and increased by three times after six days, he said.
The
COVID-
19
tests will
be started at every polling station
in the containment zones of
Delhi
in a few days and a comprehensive house-
to-house health
survey will
be done
in the
hotspots for contact tracing, Shah said.
He added that the Centre would also provide 500 railway coaches
to
Delhi
in view of the shortage of beds for
COVID-
19 patients.
The
COVID-
19 tally has reached nearly 39,000 and the virus has claimed more than 1,200 lives so far
in
Delhi.