AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria spoke to NDTV Saturday about the Covid pandemic (File)
New Delhi:
Areas with Covid positivity rates over 10 per cent must be locked down, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria told NDTV on Saturday, as the government scrambles to contain a deadly second wave that has triggered an oxygen crisis in Delhi and left India s medical infrastructure near collapse.
Dr Guleria said the country s healthcare system was paying the price for the government s failure to anticipate the spread of infections via more aggressive variants of the virus and flagged the urgent need to break the chain of transmission and reduce the skyrocketing active caseload.