Yoga Classes For Home Isolated Covid Positive Patients In Delhi

Delhi govt. has made arrangements to conduct online Yoga classes

New Delhi: Delhiites who are under home isolation due COVID-19 infection will now be able to "boost their  immunity" with the help of Yoga asanas and pranayama, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said today as he has launched a new initiative under 'Delhi ki Yogshaala" amid rising coronavirus cases.

The chief minister said, "We have come up with a wonderful program for those who are in isolation... The Delhi government is starting a new initiative under 'Delhi ki Yogshaala' for the fast recovery of all Covid patients."

The Yoga classes will be taken virtually from Wednesday and trained instructors will conduct hour-long sessions in the mornings and evenings.

Mr Kejriwal said, “Yoga boosts immunity. We will send them a link and classes will begin from tomorrow in different batches.”

Amid rising Covid cases, largely driven by the Omicron variant, the Delhi government has imposed restrictions such as closing dine-in facility in restaurants and making work-from-home mandatory for private offices. All essential services will be available.

The city recorded new 19,166 cases in last 24 hours.

However, the hospitalisation rate in Delhi remains low and most of the Covid positive patients are recovering in home isolation.

Mr. Arvind Kejriwal said the Delhi government has made arrangements to conduct online classes for up to 40,000 patients in home isolation.

He further said, " This kind of program is going to happen for the first time... No one in the whole world is doing such a program for corona-infected home isolated patients."

There will be Eight classes each day and patients can register for their suitable time slot.

Each class will comprise 15 patients and the participants can also interact with their instructors, the chief minister informed.

Chief minister said. "For the last two-three days, the pace of increase of covid cases in Delhi has slowed down. Hope it will decrease further and the trend will continue."

On Monday, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said that the city is likely to hit a peak of COVID-19 cases "definitely this week" and infections in the third wave may start falling after that.