With fears of the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the Delhi government has prepared a Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP). Under this plan, the administration will take steps according to four types of alerts to restrict various activities in the national capital.
The GRAP was approved in the meeting of Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) held on Friday. The plan is a four-stage, colour-coded alert system in which action will be decided basis the circumstances. The four types of alerts in GRAP will be Level-1 (Yellow), Level-2 (Amber), Level-3 (Orange) and Level-4 (Red). The alerts – Yellow, Amber, Orange and Red – have been arranged in terms of the severity of the pandemic, taking into consideration factors such as positivity rate, cumulative new positive cases, and average weekly occupancy rate of oxygen beds.
Level-1 (Yellow): This will be applicable when the positivity rate is more than 0.5% for two consecutive days. This means either 1500 new…