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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, May 11
“Mortality rate up to 1.8%”
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The Punjab government has reduced the death rate to 1.8 percent, Captain Amarinder Singh said, adding that so far the state has conducted more than 40,000 tests at the rate of 2,500 per day.
Prime Minister Captain Amarinder Singh proposed Monday the extension of the blockade, but with a carefully designed strategy backed by the fiscal and economic empowerment of states to save lives and secure livelihoods.
Favoring the continuation of a strict blockade in view of the escalation of Covid cases across the country, the Chief Minister said in the videoconference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi that states should have greater flexibility in micro planning as part of a strategy Carefully planned exit, spanning both Covid containment and a defined path of economic revival.
The exit strategy should consider and focus on the fiscal and economic empowerment of the states, which are responsible for the real action that directly affects the livelihood and social health of the common man, said the Chief Minister, suggesting that they should be allowed to States have great flexibility in micro-planning, with MSMEs they will be allowed to operate in red zones with adequate safeguards. The decision to designate the red, orange / yellow and green zones should be left to the states, he said.
Captain Amarinder demanded urgent financial assistance from the states to meet at least 33 percent of their committed obligations, along with income grants to the states for three months to cover the income deficit and finance expenses on Covid-19.
He called for a national strategy on Covid testing to make the battle more effective.
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