News Excerpt
The Delhi government claimed that ‘Operation SHIELD’, aimed at countering the community spread of COVID-19, has stalled it from spreading at Dilshad Garden. Later ‘Operation SHIELD’ has been announced to tackle the coronavirus spread in Delhi’s containment zones.

Pre-Connect
•    The S in SHIELD stands for sealing the immediate area or surroundings after geographical marking, H for home-quarantine for those living in the area, I for isolation and tracing of people who have been first and second contacts, E for essential supplies, which involves doorstep delivery to the people in those areas, L for local sanitisation and disinfection of those areas, and D for door-to-door checking of these areas, so that people having symptoms of coronavirus are isolated, and testing done.
•    The operations is carried out in neighbourhoods with a high concentration of COVID-19 cases.
•    During the containment period, no one will be allowed to go out or enter the locality and supply of essential goods will be done at door step.
•    Medical Professionals visited every home in the hotspots under a door-to-door checking programme to see if anyone has COVID-19 symptoms.

Analytica
    According to the World Health Organisation’s sanitation guideline, sodium hypochlorite at 0.5% (equivalent to 5000 ppm) is recommended for disinfecting surfaces. The guideline says that effective inactivation of the highly contagious coronavirus could be achieved within a minute using sodium hypochlorite, a common disinfectant.
    Even as the Coronavirus pandemic rages across the world, foreign tourists in India are hedging their bets by staying in India, while keeping the option to return back to their respective countries if need be. The reasons range from cheaper and better living in India during the crisis, to relatively fewer cases of COVID-19.

Conclusion
The biggest success in the national capital has been the containment zone in Dilshad Garden, where a woman with travel history infected eight people, including a doctor. No new case has been found in the area.