Something unusual seems to have happened with Delhi’s Covid-19 testing strategy and infection statistics since Home Minister Amit Shah’s meeting with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Lieutenant General Anil Baijal on June 14. The national capital’s tests jumped 27 per cent that day, crossing 7,000 tests a day for the first time.
The following day, the city, home to 19 million people, further ramped the numbers up and reported over 13,000 tests. The Delhi government had become the first in India to permit the use of rapid antigen tests (RATs) for coronavirus in ...
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