The daily Covid surge in the country having breached the 1 lakh mark, Dr Randeep Guleria -- chief of Delhi's All-India Institute of Medical Sciences and a key member of the government's Covid Task Force -- today underscored the need for mini containment zones, which should work like areas under lockdown.
Calling the situation "very worrying", Dr Guleria said, "If we can't have a complete lockdown, we need to have containment zones".
The containment zones, he said, should be like "mini lockdown so people cannot go out and a lot of testing tracking and isolation should be going on in these areas. Everyone who are in close contact (of patients) should be tested aggressively".
Pointing out that the rate of rise in daily Covid figures is "very steep" compared to the last time, he said, "The figures crossed 1 lakh in a very short period of time and therefore we need some aggressive things and need to have a strategy in place".
