'Lockdown Doesn't Defeat Coronavirus' says Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi is addressing the media through video conference. In this conference, he answered the questions of all media personnel. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the lockdown is not a solution to Covid-19 by any means.

People are facing troubles due to the lockdown. Lockdown is like a pause button. When we come out of lockdown, the virus is going to resume its work.

Rahul Gandhi also said that he does not want to take any credit. Whoever wants to take it they are welcome but this time we have to fight together against this trouble. He added, "I disagree with Narendra Modi with a lot of issues but now is not the time to fight. Unite and fight the virus."

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If you want to fight the virus, you've to increase the testing dramatically & your testing has to go from chasing the virus to moving ahead of it. You've to move to random testing and pre-empt where the virus is moving: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

Push testing aggressively and use testing strategically, to assist the states in their fight, use it not to just track patients but to create a map of India to see where the virus is moving: Rahul Gandhi

In his interaction with media Rahul Gandhi urged Prime Minister to focus on rapid testing in every area of the country. He further said, "Biggest weapon against COVID19 is testing-testing at scale so you know where the virus is moving&you can isolate, target&fight it. Our testing rate is 199 out of a million, all tests that we've done in last 72 days, works out to approx average of 350 tests per district."

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