New Delhi: Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia will participate in a meeting of State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA) on Tuesday to discuss whether there is community spread of COVID-19 in the national capital and to decide the further strategy to combat coronavirus.
Deputy CM Manish Sisodia will be participating in the place of CM Arvind Kejriwal, who will remain absent owing to ill-health.
"A meeting of State Disaster Management Authority will be held tomorrow on COVID-19 situation and to discuss whether there is community spread. If participant experts say there is a community spread in Delhi, our strategy will change. I will ll participate in the meeting," Sisodia had said while addressing a press conference on Monday.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), community transmission is "evidenced by the inability to relate confirmed cases through chains of transmission for a large number of cases."
The SDMA meeting is chaired by the Lieutenant Governor, while the Delhi CM is the deputy in the meeting.
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The meeting comes at a time when the national capital has been witnessing an unprecedented surge in the number of COVID-19 cases in the past one week.
The ill-health of Kejriwal, who has quarantined himself at his residence and will be tested for COVID-19, had led to the suspense on the meeting taking place.