Not lockdown, aggressive testing solution to COVID 19 pandemic : Rahul tells Govt

New Delhi/April,16: A lockdown is not the solution to fight coronavirus, the government should go for testing “aggressively and strategically”, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said Thursday. “In no way does a lockdown defeat the virus. It helps only to stop the virus for a short while. The only way to do this is to increase testing and chasing the virus and going beyond and this is my advice to the government — use testing,” the Congress MP said, addressing the media through a video app.
Right now, he said, the government was chasing the virus, which would never give the correct picture of the COVID-19 pandemic in India.”Currently testing levels are too low. I am proposing scaling up testing. One advice to the government is, push testing aggressively. Maximise testing and use testing strategically, to assist states in their fight,” Mr Gandhi, an MP from Kerala’s Wayanad, said.