Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today asked the centre to extend the pan-India lockdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic till April 30. Mr Kejriwal was among several chief ministers who participated in a video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi this afternoon to discuss whether the lockdown would end on Tuesday and other strategies to fight the infectious disease caused by a novel coronavirus.
“The decision to continue the lockdown should be taken on a national level,” Mr Kejriwal said. “If the states decide the length of the lockdown on their own, then the fight against the coronavirus won’t be effective,” said the Chief Minister of Delhi, from where the third-highest number of coronavirus infection has been reported, after Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
