‘Impose 15-day lockdown in Delhi’: Traders Association to Delhi Govt

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New Delhi: Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has asked Delhi LG Anil Baijal and Delhi CM Arvind Kejiwal to impose a 15-day lockdown in the state to arrest the rapid growth of COVID-19 infections. Stating that Delhi is sitting on a ‘COVID bomb’ with 25 per cent corona positivity rate, the traders’ body wanted strict measures of checking to be deployed at airports, railway stations, bus stands and all borders of Delhi to ensure that no COVID-19 affected person enters the state.

Praveen Khandelwal, Secretary General, CAIT said that Delhi’s trade organisations are fully geared to supply essential commodities to people living in Delhi and are ready to assist the government in every possible way if a lockdown is announced. He has sought a meeting of prominent trade leaders of Delhi with both LG and CM .

CAIT acknowledged that a lockdown will definitely affect business and economic activities of Delhi but preferred the life of the people to be put on priority.

In a letter to LG and CM, the trade body said Kejriwal himself had on April 17 admitted that there is a shortage of beds, medicines, oxygen etc. in Delhi. “The statement of the CM itself shows that the situation is already worse and if effective steps are not taken immediately, the covid could prove to be much more fatal for the people of Delhi,” they said.

CAIT also urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to make a concrete plan with districts as the basic fundamental focal point to prevent coronavirus at least in states where it is spreading faster. This step will be in conformity with the suggestion of PM Modi to deal with COVID-19 at the level of small containment zones, the organisation said.

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