Coronavirus: in New Delhi, compulsory quarantine of five days for all patients

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The Indian federal government has just imposed, this Saturday June 20, a compulsory quarantine of five days in hospital or isolation center for all the inhabitants of New Delhi infected by Covid-19, even for those who do not present symptoms . A measure that promises to be difficult to apply.

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Five days in a hospital or isolation center for any New Delhi resident who tested  positive for Covid-19 , even asymptomatic. The measure is extreme and difficult to enforce, but the federal government believes that home quarantines are not well respected, which would cause the spread of the virus in New Delhi.

The regional government, led by an opposition party, opposes this measure deemed unrealistic in the capital where more than 3,000 new cases are registered every day, reports our correspondent in New Delhi, Sébastien Farcis.

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If all these people need to be hospitalized, New Delhi will have no more beds after three days. However the capital expects to see the number of its cases multiplied by ten in six weeks, and the authorities are already in the process of converting all the conference centers, hotels or train cars into makeshift hospitals to face this possible tsunami. tide.

For its part, the regional government of New Delhi affirms that this measure will discourage the sick from coming to be tested, for fear of being interned for five days. But in the end, the federal government will have the final say.

Chennai City Confined Again

The federal government's decision comes the day after the announcement of a new 12-day containment for the fifteen million inhabitants of the agglomeration of Chennai, in the south of India, which faces an intensification of the new coronavirus epidemic.

This measure is the first major step backwards in the process of deconfinement at work across the nation of 1.3 billion inhabitants. Faced with a bloodless economy , New Delhi had largely lifted at the beginning of the month the draconian confinement imposed at the end of March on the whole country to curb the spread of the Covid-19 disease.

(With AFP )

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