New Delhi: A senior AAP leader has said the Union government needs to accept that community spread of the coronavirus is happening in the country and follow Delhi’s lead in containing the virus by ramping-up testing.
Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said people are not realising that the community spread is underway and hence contracting the virus from unknown sources.
Speaking at a media briefing, he said, “(If) you are not able to find information on the source of the infection so that is community spread.”
He added: “The Centre needs to accept that community spread is taking place and ramp-up testing on a large scale and more testing kits must be made available. They must replicate what the Delhi government did.”
He also said admitting that there is a community spread of the virus would require testing to be done on a large scale.
“In terms of testing if you compare, India is far behind. In the US, 1,47,000 tests are conducted per million while in Russia over 1 lakh tests are done per million,” he stated.