Against the national average of 654 coronavirus tests per million population as on May 1, Delhi is conducting about 2,300 tests.
Even as the national Capital has high number of Covid-19 patients, above 3,600, the high rate of testing every 10 lakh population can be one of the reasons for the high rate of coronavirus cases in Delhi, said Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday.
“When we see this number, it seems that cases are rapidly increasing in Delhi. It is happening because we are conducting tests on a large scale in Delhi. We are conducting 2,300 tests per 1 million people in Delhi,” said Kejriwal.
The CM also said that the Delhi Government will not stop clinical trials of plasma therapy to treat severally-ill Covid-19 patients as its initial results are good.
The announcement by the Delhi CM came days after the centre said that plasma therapy for treatment of coronavirus patients is at an experimental stage and it has the potential to cause life-threatening complications.