New Delhi: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday (March 19) attacked the Centre and expressed condolences to households affected by lockdown for the “incompetence and myopia” of the federal government.
Gandhi shared UNICEF’s report on the COVID-19 affect in India and tweeted, “The unplanned lockdown disaster continues to haunt the country.”
Slamming the Centre, he wrote, “Condolences to the lakhs of families being punished with indescribable pain for GOI’s incompetence & myopia,” he added.
The unplanned lockdown catastrophe continues to hang-out the nation.
Condolences to the lakhs of households being punished with indescribable ache for GOI’s incompetence & myopia. pic.twitter.com/TBN7mS149W
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) March 19, 2021
The authorities had carried out a nationwide lockdown on March 24, 2020 as a result of lethal COVID-19 pandemic. It was probably the most stringent COVID-19 induced lockdowns on this planet.
As per UNICEF’s report, because of COVID-19 pandemic, India is prone to witness the very best rise in youngster mortality and maternal deaths among the many six most populous South Asian nations together with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Meanwhile, the nation presently has 2,71,282 lively COVID-19 circumstances, whereas the dying toll stands at 1,59,370, in response to the Ministry of Health knowledge. Nearly 4 crore beneficiaries have been vaccinated to date, the info confirmed.
