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Govt ready with beds, O2, tests if needed, but don’t panic: Kejriwal | Latest News India

The Delhi government is completely prepared to tackle any uptick in the city’s Covid-19 graph and can scale up testing, hospital beds and oxygen supply whenever required, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday, after a review meeting with senior officials of the state health department, in light of an infection spike in several countries, including China. Kejriwal underlined that no cases of the BF.7 subvariant of the Sars-CoV-2 virus (which causes Covid-19), the key driver of infections of China, have been detected in Delhi so far. “The BF.7 variant was not detected even in sewage samples collected and tested from seven different places in Delhi. Of the cases reported in Delhi, 92% are related to the XBB variant or its sub-variants,” Kejriwal said. Delhi on Thursday reported 10 fresh cases of Covid-19, at a test positivity rate of 0.41%. The city also recorded one death on Thursday, only the third this month and the 12th in two months. The Capital has recorded just 151 cases of the infection so far in December, at an …