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Amit Shah Holds Another Meeting With Kejriwal, Others Over Delhi’s COVID-19 Situation
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal (left) and Home Minister of India Amit Shah.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday (18 June) held a high level meeting with senior officials to review COVID-19 situation in Delhi-NCR. The meeting was also attended by Delhi Chief Minister (CM) Arvind Kejriwal.
In a 75-minute meeting that began at 12:00 noon in the North Block office of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Shah took stock of the situation linked to the novel coronavirus pandemic and preparedness to contain the virus in the national capital and the National Capital Region.
This was the third meeting between Shah and Kejriwal over the COVID-19 situation in the national capital, which so far has reported 47,102 confirmed cases that include 27,741 active cases and 1,904 deaths.
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla also attended the meeting that was arranged after two consecutive meetings chaired by the Home Minister on 14-15 June to handle the COVID-19 situation in Delhi.
The meeting was organised soon after Shah directed to do double testing for COVID-19 in Delhi from Thursday as per the new Rapid Antigen methodology -- the technique which will be much faster and cheaper. For this, the test kits will be provided to Delhi on a priority basis. A total of 169 centres have been set up here for collection and testing of the samples.
(This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.)
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