Xinhua News Agency, New Delhi, May 23 (Reporter Zhao Xu) The Chief Minister of New Delhi, the Indian capital, Kejriwal, announced on the 23rd that the current "closure" measures in New Delhi will be extended to May 31.
This is the fifth time that New Delhi has extended the "closure" measures.
On the same day, Kejriwal stated at a video press conference that the number of newly confirmed cases in a single day in New Delhi has continued to decline since the "closure". In order to continue to consolidate the results of the epidemic, it was decided to extend the current "closure" measures for another week to 5 On the 31st.
He also said that if the number of newly diagnosed cases in New Delhi in a single day continues to decline in the future, the government may consider implementing a phased release after this round of "closures".
New Delhi has implemented a city-wide blockade on April 19 and has since been extended four times.
The epidemic data released by the Ministry of Health of India on the 23rd showed that there were 240,842 new confirmed cases of new crown in India, and a total of 26,530,132 confirmed cases; 3,741 new deaths and a total of 299,266 deaths.