Delhi: Centre’s isolation rules same as ours, says AAP

NEW DELHI: After the central government issued revised timelines for patients in home isolation, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Raghav Chadha claimed on Friday that the new guidelines issued by the Centre were taken verbatim from the Aam Aadmi Party government’s guidelines on the same.
Chadha said that the AAP government had formulated a full-proof plan for keeping asymptomatic patients or those with mild symptoms in home isolation, and over 40,000 had recovered after staying within their homes. He said the AAP government had framed the rules after intense discussions with experts and doctors. “I will request the BJP government to cooperate with the AAP government and to not try to create chaos in Delhi,” Chadha said.
The MLA added, “The Centre has also advised the implementation of telephonic consultancy to Covid-19 patients in home isolation across the country. Significantly, the same BJP government scrapped the same telephonic consultancy provisions for home isolation patients implemented in Delhi.” He wondered why the AAP government’s mechanism was scrapped.
Chadha alleged that the central government wanted to create chaos by passing politically motivated orders through the lieutenant governor to show up the state government in poor light. Recently, LG Anil Baijal made it mandatory for all Covid-positive individuals to go into institutional quarantine for five days but later rolled back the order after facing opposition from chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. The LG, however, ordered that all those testing positive should be taken to a Covid care centre for assessment on whether the person was fit for home isolation. Later, this condition was also withdrawn.
“The passing of these orders and then withdrawing them show that the BJP government has no mission or vision on combating Covid in Delhi," Chadha maintained.
The LG’s Office did not response to the allegations. Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor said: “Kejriwal is trying to cover up his government's goof ups on Covid. He tries to show that he is working in tandem with the Centre, but his colleagues are spoiling Delhi-Centre relations.”