The Delhi Disaster Management Authority, DDMA on July 9 approved the Graded Response Action Plan, (GRAP). According to GRAP, there will be four levels of ‘alerts’, Level 1 – Yellow ‘Alert’, Level 2 – Amber ‘Alert’, Level 3 – Orange ‘Alert’ and Level 4 – Red ‘Alert’.
- Level-1: The Level-1 of the plan will be applicable only when the positivity rate is more than 0.5 per cent for two consecutive days, at least 1500 new cases have been registered in the past one week and patients admitted to 500 oxygen beds.
- The Level-2 will be applicable when the positivity rate is more than one per cent, at least 3500 new cases have been registered and patients admitted to 700 oxygen beds in one week.
- The Level-3 will be applicable only when the positivity rate is more than two per cent, at least 9000 new cases have been registered and patients admitted to 1,000 oxygen beds.
- The Level-4 will be applicable when the positivity rate is more than five per cent, at least 16,000 new cases have been registered and patients admitted to 3000 oxygen beds in one week.
