Kejriwal Urges People of All Faiths to Donate Plasma, Forget Hindu-Muslim, Covid-19 Affects All

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday appealed to all people, regardless of religion, who have recovered from the covid-19 disease to come forward and donate plasma for serious Covid-19 patients and said the therapy has shown good results.

"It is conceivable that a Muslim's plasma can spare existence of a Hindu patient or the plasma of a Hindu may spare the life of a Muslim individual. The god didn't segregate between people. Why have we made a divider between us? Coronavirus influences all - be it Hindu or Muslims," he said. 

Kejriwal said on the off chance that anybody ever has any awful affections for some other religion, they should simply feel that one day their plasma can spare your lives. "We can take an exercise from this coronavirus emergency that in the event that we cooperate, nobody can overcome us. In any case, in the event that we keep on battling, there is no degree left." 

"Our point is that we ought not allow anybody to kick the bucket. I am upbeat that individuals are approaching to give their plasma to spare lives," Kejriwal said. 

Talking about a specific case, he said there was an extremely basic patient in the Lok Nayak Hospital. "Specialists said he was sinking. He was directed plasma treatment and his wellbeing has improved essentially," Kejriwal said.

He briefed that it has been eight weeks since the outbreak of coronavirus in Delhi, and there were fewer coronavirus cases and fewer fatalities in the city this week as compared to the last week.

Speaking to the media, Kejriwal said



in other countries, the numbers were doubling week after week, but in Delhi the eighth week -- starting April 19 -- was better than the seventh week, between April 12 and 19.

"This week was slightly better than the week before, for the people of Delhi. There were fewer cases, fewer deaths and many more people went home after complete recovery," the Chief Minister said. Sharing the data, he said the eighth week (between April 19 and 26) had a better picture than the week before.

"The pattern of the rising cases and getting to double or triple of its original count has been observed across the world, but something like this was not observed here."

Kejriwal said while 850 cases were reported in the seventh week, in the eighth only 622 new cases were reported. "This week nine people died due to coronavirus, while in the week before that, 21 people died," he said.

In the seventh week, 260 people were cured and discharged, while 580 went home last week -- "that is more than double of the previous week", the Chief Minister said, calling it a good sign.

He said that while there were 566 people admitted to the hospitals in the seventh week, just 34 people were admitted to the hospitals this week.

"The last week was good for us, people are following the lockdown in a disciplined manner, and we will soon be able to win our fight against Corona if we continue to follow the lockdown protocol like this."

The first case of Coronavirus was reported on March 4 in Delhi. As of Sunday, the total positive count stands at about 2,650.