Goa offering free Covid therapy to all these being handled at authorities hospitals.
Goa is treating Covid patients for free in all authorities hospitals, knowledgeable chief minister Pramod Sawant on Thursday. The authorities can be taking good care of as much as 80 per cent expense of these being handled for Covid in non-public hospitals.
“We’re giving free of cost treatment to everyone in Goa in all government hospitals. Besides this, people who get COVID treatment in the private hospitals, 80% of their fees is being paid by the government, they need to pay only 20% of the fee,” Goa CM Pramod Sawant mentioned.
Earlier within the day, a choice on imposing a lockdown within the state could also be taken by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant late on Thursday, Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar mentioned.
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Addressing reporters after assembly Sawant, together with different ruling MLAs, who joined by way of video convention, Kavlekar mentioned that circumstances in Goa weren’t reducing regardless of the present restrictions imposed by the state authorities.
“A decision (on lockdown) will be taken today,” he mentioned.
The ruling BJP legislators have gone into huddle after the Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Goa authorities to impose restrictions on guests arriving in Goa from May 10.
It additionally sought detailed details about the federal government’s Covid administration mechanism, whereas listening to a bunch of public curiosity litigations, which amongst different prayers, have sought a 15-day lockdown in Goa, which on Thursday witnessed a file 3,869 new constructive circumstances and 58 deaths.
Kavlekar mentioned that imposing a lockdown could should be the subsequent step earlier than the federal government, as a result of restrictions imposed by the federal government to curtail public motion had not managed to arrest the rising variety of infections.
“We discussed about the lockdown (at the meeting). I have said that the manner in which cases have increased, we may have to go for another lockdown. CM has sought everyone’s opinion and all MLAs were in agreement for a lockdown,” he mentioned.
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