Health minister & health secy are AWOL. Lav Agarwal, stonewaller-in-chief, continues to share as lil as he can in the alleged briefing

Nearly 5000 people are infected, over 150 are dead

Here's what happened today

#India #COVID19
LA: Just vague monologue about how stadium can be turned into hosps- if needed. Across the country, in every district "kaam ho raha hai".

Technology was used to make a war room :/

(Kya kaam ho raha, dont ask)
PSS, Home Affairs: Lockdown measures are being enforced, & intense police scrutiny in hotspots

(don't ask where these hotspots are. You may have the info you need to protect yourself, so ..obviously.. this govt will not share it)
Rambles bout aid package & food relief- NOTHING specific about the tests in relief camps, cases etc

Now to Dr Ganga from ICMR
Dr Ganga: Pvt labs have tested 2200+ test. ICMR has 139 govt labs & 65 private labs.
Online ques: Are govt labs insufficient?

LA: Our tests have protocol abt sampling. Private & govt labs are spread across the country.

HOW IS THIS AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION ASKED?!!
J: patients suffering from other diseases go to hosps & later find out they had covid to begin with

LA: This is happening across the world. We should change our behaviour *rambles*

(YES. BUT ACROSS THE WORLD COUNTRIES ARE TESTING MORE JUST TO AVOID EXACTLY THIS)
Online Ques: Do we have enough HCQ?

LA: Let me assure you we it is being monitored at the highest level. *rambles* Kindle be assured... :/
JUST NO DATA on our stockpile
J: we've been in lockdown for over 2 weeks while cases are surging. What's going on?

LA: Our thought process is twin approach- lockdown + containment. Overall, we have seen impact of lcokdown. everyday is new battle.
J: Maharasshtra has many cases. ICMR, update us?

Dr Ganga: We dont think there are significantly high deaths in Maha.
(Maha has 64 deaths- highest in the country fyi)
J: What about Tablighi Jamata (of course) #NeverForget

PSS, Home Affairs: We have contact traced 25000+ tablighi jamat people. They have been contained.

Fyi, in the last 24 hrs 32 people have died.
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