Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said the COVID-19 restrictions in the national capital will be eased soon as the positivity rate has fallen substantially and that jis government does not want to affect the livelihood of people.

“COVID positivity rate has reduced by 20% in the span of last 10 days. Today it’s about 10%, opposed to 30% positivity rate on January 15. All of this is because of the consistent pace of vaccination,” the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo said. “Soon we will try to do away with restrictions and bring your life back to normalcy, we will make all efforts in that direction.”

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Kejriwal further said he had written to Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal, proposing to end the curbs but it was declined. “We will together lift the restrictions soon,” he said. 

On Friday, the Delhi government had written to the LG, recommending to end the weekend curfew in the city as COVID cases were declining. However, the proposal was rejected. 

The LG’s office said that a decision on ending the weekend curfew will be taken once the pandemic situation improves. 

Delhi logged 5,760 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 3,437 or 37% lower than in the previous 24 hours. 

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Kejriwal’s comments came at a ceremony where he hoisted the national flag ahead of the country’s 73rd Republic Day. 

Kejriwal hailed Dr BR Ambedkar, who was chairman of the drafting committee of Constitution of India, at the ceremony. The CM said that his every government office in Delhi will replace politician photos with those of Ambedkar and Bhagat Singh.

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“Today we pledge to fulfill BR Ambedkar’s dreams of quality education for every kid. We have brought that revolution into education sector in last seven years,” Kejriwal said, adding Delhi government school was also visited by former US First Lady Melania Trump during her visit to the country.