Need Aggressive Strategy, Mini Lockdowns To Contain Covid Surge: AIIMS Chief

The daily Covid surge in the country having breached the 1 lakh mark, Dr Randeep Guleria -- chief of Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and a key member of the government's Covid Task Force -- today underscored the need for mini containment zones, which should work like areas under lockdown. Calling the situation "very worrying", Dr Guleria said, "If we can't have a complete lockdown, we need to have containment zones". The containment zones, he said, should be like "mini lockdown so people cannot go out and a lot of testing tracking and isolation should be going on in these areas. Everyone who are in close contact (of patients) should be tested aggressively".