PANAJI
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has said on Sunday that it’s time that the State government take things seriously in preparing for the impending third wave of Covid.
In a press note, AAP highlighted that the first week of August has seen almost 100 cases of Covid daily giving the State an almost 2% positivity rate on Sunday.
“The second wave caught the government in complete disarray with the Cabinet Ministers defending not shutting borders merely days before the State was forced to take stringent measures due to ballooning case numbers. This coupled with lack of beds in hospitals and an oxygen scam that originated with the Health Minister himself cost a lot of Goan lives and created an economic downturn,” stated AAP.
AAP further stated, “The State at present has 1,006 active Covid cases with 109 new cases being reported just yesterday. The CM had proclaimed a 100 per cent vaccination target by July-end, but now has moved the target to September. Not only this, but neighbouring Maharashtra has a large number of cases and even Karnataka has instituted restricted movement in districts neighbouring Maharashtra. The number of Covid cases in Kerala are also on the rise and as of yet the government has not chalked out any plan on preventing the third wave from hitting the State or has made any announcements as to how they will prevent a repeat of the tragedy of the second wave.”
AAP Goa convenor Rahul Mhambre said, “Before the second wave itself we had warned the government that they must prepare for the rise of cases and help Goenkars. Sadly, the government didn’t heed our warnings. This time as well we are warning the government, that they must take the third wave seriously.”
AAP Goa leader Valmiki Naik said, “We are seeing 100 new daily cases from the past few days and this is very alarming. Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala have the most number of active cases in the entire country, and Goa’s proximity to these states puts us at high risk. In fact, Karnataka has already put strict restrictions on districts neighbouring Maharashtra, but as of now the government is still in a slumber.”
