New Delhi: Maharashtra minister Aaditya Thackeray speaks to Palava News on the state authorities’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The interview comes on a day when Maharashtra, the worst coronavirus-hit state within the nation, reported its highest single-day spike of three,041 circumstances.
Highlights of Aaditya Thackeray’s interview:
- Maharashtra just isn’t hiding figures, it’s not afraid of figures. I’ve requested officers to chase circumstances – be in chawls and highrises. We can’t deny and be frightened of the numbers. We can solely shield residents if we determine the circumstances.
- In a rustic like ours, how a lot you do, won’t be sufficient. Everyone is doing as a lot as potential.
- How lengthy will this proceed? WHO is aware of. We slowly went into the lockdown within the state. When we discuss opening up, a knee-jerk opening just isn’t the perfect factor to do. We should create a medical buffer for asymptomatic circumstances as a result of corona just isn’t going away quickly.
- Kerala has a better-defined healthcare system. We are chatting with docs with out frontiers, together with docs from New Zealand who’ve helped flatten the curve.
- We have put a pace breaker. With time, the road of therapy has developed. To be trustworthy, the curve would flatten once we determine each case. My constituency was the best in Mumbai. We mentioned let’s not be scared and let’s go and determine circumstances. Now the doubling price in my ward is 21 days. So we have now to chase each case.
- Trains are carrying lesser quantity. Airport was advised to organize for 20,000 fliers every day. But on trains there are 1,200. We will finally need them to return. But that wants extra planning. With public transport off, we won’t have 20,000 folks on the highway. We need native trains to start out in order that buses will be on the airport.
- More readability on journey to and from airport in a couple of hours.
- After May 31, we’re staggered opening.