New Delhi: The central authorities on Wednesday (May 12) categorically rejected senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor’s claims that the COVID-19 state of affairs is deteriorating within the Andaman and Nicobar and at the very least 4-5 persons are succumbing as a result of an infection on the GB Pant Hospital and no testing has been carried out by authorities.
The authorities countered Tharoor’s claims by itemizing the coronavirus information of the island.
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Andamans reported 16 COVID-19 associated deaths throughout second wave of pandemic
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The official Twitter deal with of PIB Fact Check acknowledged that the Andamans has reported solely 16 COVID-19 associated deaths in the course of the second wave of the pandemic. It additionally acknowledged that the island has a restoration price of 96 per cent, which is the best within the nation. “The island also has the highest tests per million in the country,” the Centre additional mentioned.
“Disturbed to receive reports of a deteriorating #COVID situation in the Andamans, stories of 4-5 deaths daily at the GB Pant Hospital, figures of cases& deaths allegedly suppressed, no testing even of symptomatic cases, only 50 ventilators for 4 lakh people. Media sadly silent,” Tharoor had tweeted.
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Hope my sources had been incorrect on Andamans COVID figures: Shashi Tharoor
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However, after the federal government’s clarification on Andamans state of affairs on COVID, the Congress leader expressed his reduction and mentioned he was glad to listen to it. “My sources are Govt employees on the island, who wrote to me begging for national attention to the problems they were reporting. They are too scared to be identified, so I can’t ask them to come forward. I will take your word for it & hope my sources were wrong,” Tharoor tweeted.
Meanwhile, 28 extra folks examined optimistic for COVID-19 in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, pushing the coronavirus tally within the union territory to six,426, a well being division official mentioned on Wednesday. All the brand new circumstances within the archipelago had been detected throughout contact tracing, the official mentioned. The COVID-19 dying toll remained at 78 as no recent fatality was reported within the final 24 hours, official advised PTI.Â
