How Dexamethasone may help fight Covid-19

An anonymous twitter handle @libertariandesi, usually critical of the government’s policies, put out a rather approving tweet on July 9: “Amit Shah really got Delhi's COVID situation under control. We should give him credit, not Kejriwal. I urge Amit Shah to take control of Telangana for a few days to fix the COVID problem. You will be doing us Telugus from Telangana a favour.”

Home Minister Amit Shah may not be willing to take direct charge of the worsening situation in Telangana, health being a state subject, but the fact remains that his intervention in Delhi turned things around with the situation well under control now. Though the number of cases is close to 1,05,000, the recovery rate is 75 per cent, far outstripping the new cases. Experts even say that Delhi has managed to flatten the Covid-19 curve.

With the number of daily Covid-19 cases dropping below 2,500, AIIMS director Randeep Guleria, who also heads the Clinical Research Group of the National Covid Task Force, believes that Delhi may have gone over the peak and now heading downwards. Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s prediction, exactly one month ago, that the Capital will have more than 5,50,000 cases by July-end, is not likely to come true.