International passengers testing Covid -19 positive upon their arrival at Delhi airport will have to isolate at designated paid and free facilities including hotels and districts’ Covid care centers, the Directorate of Health Services, Delhi government, said in an order issued on December 30. (Thursday).
“In compliance with the guidelines for international arrivals dated November 30, 2021, issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, based on the risk assessment, it is informed that the institutional isolation of Covid-19 positive passengers/ contacts arriving at the IGI airport, New Delhi, from foreign countries, will henceforth be done at the designated paid and free facilities,” the DGHS order read. Teams deputed at the Delhi airport will transfer the patients accordingly.
In another order, of Health and Family Welfare Department, Delhi government ordered to link Covid Care Centers (CCC) with different city hospitals.
As per the order, Terapanth Bhawan CCC having 100 bed facility will be linked with Ambedkar Nagar Hospital, Sardar Patel Covid with 100 beds linked to ITBP/ PT. Madan Mohan Malviya Hospital, CWG Akshardham 50, to be scaled up to 500 beds with Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital and IBIS Hotel 100 beds attached with Indira Gandhi Hospital, Dwarka.
“It is hereby re-iterated that the Linked Hospital will ensure proper monitoring of the CCCs attached to it and will ensure proper, timely and adequate supply of logistics as mandated by the orders passed by the Department,” the order stated.
These orders came two days after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in view of the rising coronavirus cases, had said, “As the Covid-19 positivity rate has been above 0.5 percent for the past few days, we are enforcing Level-I (yellow alert) of the Graded Response Action Plan.”
Meanwhile Delhi on Thursday recorded huge jump in daily Covid -19 cases with 1,313 cases registered in last 24 hours.
According to Covid 19 health bulletin, the positivity rate recorded at 1.73 percent while 423 patients have been recovered and no death reported in past 24 hours. Delhi has total 8,835 beds, out of which 189 occupied and 8,646 vacant. 68,590 tests conducted in past 24 hours.
