Government ready for Omicron variant: Kejri
New Delhi, Dec 18: Delhi government is ready to tackle the Omicron variant of Covid, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday.
He advised people not to panic saying even though the variant was said to spread faster than the previous ones, its symptoms were mild.
He said Delhi was unlikely to face another wave of infections, since according to the sero survey conducted by the Delhi government, 96 per cent of the state population was found to have antibodies and a majority of them were vaccinated.
“I have been holding meetings these last few days and I want to assure people that our government is ready to tackle Omicron,” Kejriwal said at a Christmas and New Year event hosted by the Delhi Assembly Speaker here in the assembly premises.
The CM said the government learnt lessons during the April wave and
◗ ARVIND KEJRIWAL said Delhi was unlikely to face another wave of infections, since according to the sero survey conducted by the Delhi government, 96% of the state population was found to have antibodies and a majority of them were vaccinated
has worked on its shortcomings.
“In April this year, the fourth wave of Covid in Delhi claimed many lives. We took help from everyone and together we brought it under control. We pray to god there is no next wave but if it comes we will bring it under control as we did during the last wave of infection in April,” he said.
Kejriwal greeted Delhiites and people of the country with a message of peace, brotherhood and wellbeing of all. Amid the jump in cases of Omicron variant in Delhi, doctors said people should avoid all gatherings and follow Covid-appropriate behaviours, else the pandemic situation may worsen given the highly transmissible nature of this variant of coronavirus.
Health experts and doctors treating Covid patients at leading government and private facilities in the city have said that a “sense of complacency” has again crept in among a large section of citizens despite witnessing the "horrors of the second wave" of Covid infections earlier this year.