New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Aravind Kejriwal introducing a new method to curb the spread of the Covid- 19 pandemic, in the name of “Operation SHIELD” in New Delhi. He disclosed on Thursday the SHIELD will stand for “Sealing, Home Quarantine, Isolation and Tracking, Essential Supply, Local Sanitization and Door-To-Door Checking”.

He also said that it will be enforced in neighbourhoods with a high concentration of COVID-19 cases. CM Kejriwal said that the Government has been identified “21 areas as containment zones in Delhi. These areas have been sealed. People are not being allowed to enter or exit from these areas,” he said. “All people in these areas will be under home quarantine. They will not be allowed to leave their homes. Covid- 19 positive cases in these areas will be isolated and people they came in contact with will be traced,” Mr. Kejriwal said.

With the area under total lockdown, essential supplies will be delivered to homes. The government will conduct rigours sanitization of the locality, he said. “Under door-to-door checking, each home will be visited by medical professionals to check if anyone has COVID-19 symptoms”.

The Operation SHIELD will be enforced include localities in Malaviya Nagar, Bengali Market, Sangam Vihar, Mayur Vihar, Dwaraka, Nizamuddin, Vasundhara Enclave, Dilshad Garden, Patparganj, Dinpur Village, Jahangirpuri, Kalyanpuri, Khichripur, Pandav Nagar, Krishan Kunj Extension, West Vinod Nagar, Seemapuri, Dilshad Colony and Jhilmil Colony. The SHIELD programme comes two days after the Chief Minister announced “the 5T plan” of “testing, tracing, treatment, team-work and tracking and monitoring”.

Aravind Kejriwal on Thursday also said the Delhi government will drastically cut its expenses given the sharp drop in revenue from taxes. “The government will only spend on salaries and measures to tackle Covid- 19. It’s an hour of crisis. Everyone will have to make sacrifices at their own level,” he said. Delhi registered 93 new Covid- 19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the total to 669. This includes nine deaths and 21 people who have been released after treatment.