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Kejriwal to Meet Amit Shah to Discuss Delhi’s COVID-19, Pollution Situation | Y This News

New Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi Chief Minister, will likely meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday to talk about issues related to rising COVID-19 cases as well as rising pollution levels in the national capital.

In the meeting, Arvind Kejriwal is probably going to push his government’s previous request to Shah for providing extra beds in Central government-operated hospitals in the backdrop of the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases, sources in the Delhi government said to IANS on the condition of anonymity.

The Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal may moreover look for additional assistance from the Central government besides beds, including cooperation by other states for controlling pollution which is increasing throughout the festive season.

Arvind Kejriwal is probably going to meet the Home Minister in the initial half at the latter’s official residence here.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor had prior looked for Shah’s intervention in the handling of the frightening COVID-19 situation in the national capital and looked for extra beds in the Centrally operated hospitals in the city.

The strides already taken by the Delhi government to control the pandemic are additionally liable to be discussed in the meeting.

The meeting comes when the national capital is seeing over 7,000 cases daily for the past couple of days.

On Friday, Delhi had registered 7,802 new COVID-19 cases out of the 56,553 samples that were tested.

A sum of 4,74,830 individuals has so far been infected by the virus in the national capital, of which 7,423 have surrendered to the feared disease. On a positive note, 4,23,078 individuals have recuperated and the city currently has 44,300 ongoing cases.

Pollution has likewise been a significant problem in the national capital with a thick cover of harmful smog wrapping most parts of the city. The Air Quality Index (AQI) has arrived at the upper end of the ‘very poor’ level, with the officials of the Ministry of Earth Sciences warning that it may turn ‘severe’ by Saturday night.

The Ministry of Earth Sciences, on Thursday, had said that the level of PM2.5, a lethal pollutant, is probably going to be lowest in the previous four years under zero-firecracker situations during Diwali.

In the interim, Delhi’s air quality index remained at 378 micrograms per cubic meter around the early afternoon.

As per the Ministry’s System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research, overall air quality has deteriorated and in the higher end of ‘very poor’ level. The estimate is that it might deteriorate further and come to the ‘severe’ level by Saturday night.