Kerala Is Well-Equipped To Deal With Coronavirus Crisis: Pinarayi Vijayan Exclusive
He doesn't come often before the media certainly not the national media this is his first interview to a national challenge in fact he's been coming every day on the kerala local media appreciate your joining us mr. pigeon here my big question do you have enough supplies it's a question that is being asked everywhere you're a consumer state given the lockdown 21 days how will you ensure how are you ensuring that people will get food and other essential goods mr. Chief Minister we are well equipped to deal with to the situation we have enough stocks of food grains and essential commodities that is enough and more for more than three months so the possibility of panic buying is also totally ruled out so you're saying you have enough stock to last this entire period no problem with that the other fear mr. Chief Minister is that in the coming weeks there will be an exponential increase in the number of positive cases we've already seen careless cases rise manifolds! in the last few days does your health care system have the capacity to meet the challenge if these if there is an explosion in the number of coronavirus cases based on our experiences thus far and the steps taken so far we do not foresee on exponential growth however we are geared up to meet any eventuality buildings are being taken . fifty six beds have been arranged early
and 20% of the have been specifically reserved for this additional bets are also being mobilized etiquette number of icy use ventilators etc also are being arranged it yes you are aware we have clambered down a lockout all over the state on Monday itself this is prior to the announcement of the national lockdown announced by the Prime Minister on Tuesday we have done everything possible to see that the spread discord with these steps you know it's interesting mr. Chief Minister you're saying that you announced a complete state lockdown on Monday it says that's a day ahead of the Prime Minister's announcement you know I said this last week what Kerala thinks today India thinks tomorrow and one of the things that you've been pushing for is aggressive testing you're testing more than most other Indian states do you believe that aggressives testing as the World Health Organization suggests is the right way forward do we have enough testing kits for Corona and is that the reason why we are not being able to increase the testing because at the moment we still don't have enough testing kits tests in Kerala is happening at a rate which is unmatched by any other state in a health emergency like this we feel that this should be expedited also the or Mandir of India should decide on rapid testing as well instead of the PCR tests now adopted a proven of testing centers etc are then by Government of India Kerala Government has rolled out here rupees 20,000 crore special package to overcome this quo with 19 pandemic it takes on inclusive you and ensures that no one is left behind it covers a healthy package loan assistance scheme welfare functions Yemen our Aegis free food grains subsidized the meals tax relief and rear clearance one of the major elements in this list is the loan assistance program loans worth the rupees 2000 roll will be made available to families with the
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