Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta accused the Delhi Government of “criminal negligence” saying that the death rate in the national Capital went up due to reduction in corona testing.
Addressing a joint Press conference along with the Leader of the Opposition in Delhi Assembly Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, MPs Hansraj Hans and Gutam Gambhir, Gupta said that the AAP Government changed its direction and reduced the testing when the pandemic’s second wave was at its peak in Delhi.
Presenting the data, he said that 1.14 lakh tests were done on April 10 and there were 10,774 positive cases. On April 12 and 13 respectively, 1.02 lakh tests were done and the number of positive cases was 13,468.
Then 1.08 lakh tests were done the next day with 17,823 positive cases being recorded. “The tests started coming down from here as 98,957 tests were conducted on April 15 and 78,767 on April 20 and the number further came down to 57,690 on April 25.
Similarly, testing was reduced to 50 per cent in May. On May 14, it was 56,811 with 6,430 positive cases while on May 16.