Centre to provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi in view of shortage of hospital beds for Covid-19 patients: Shah

New Delhi, Jun 14: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Union Government will immediately provide 500 railway coaches to Delhi in view of shortage of hospital beds for Covid-19 patients and testing of Corona in the national capital will be doubled in the next two days.
Mr Shah and Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan held a meeting with Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and others to review the COVID-19
situation in the national capital.
In a series of tweets after the meeting, Mr Shah said, ”In view of shortage of beds for Corona infected patients in Delhi, the Modi government at the Centre has decided to immediately give 500 railway coaches to Delhi.”
These railway coaches will not only increase 8000 beds in Delhi but this coaches will be equipped with all facilities to fight the corona infection, he said.

Mr Shah said, ”In order to get contact mapping done properly in Delhi’s Containment Zones, a comprehensive health survey of every person will be done from house to house, whose report will come in 1 week.”
”Also, to get effective monitoring, the Arogya Setu app will be downloaded in every person’s mobile,” he said.
Mr Shah said to stop the spread of corona infection in Delhi, testing of corona will be doubled in the next two days and after 6 days the testing will be increased to three times.
”Also, after a few days, testing will be started at every polling station in the Containment Zones,” he said.
AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, members of the State Disaster Management Authority and other top officials were also present in the meeting.