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Do not fleece the Covid-affected people


Covid has bought Goa to its knees with untold misery unfolding every day with authorities, doctors still unable to stem the number of deaths.

The fallout is having a ripple effect from top to right down the lower rung of society which has borne the brunt of the negative effects of lockdowns and curfews. 

The unorganised sector of job losses will have a negative effect on the GDP growth. Industrial and manufacturing growth is likely to get hit, bringing the economy in a downward spiral. Farmers unrest is still not showing any signs of abating.

All round sentiments are rock bottom and will continue this way until the pandemic disappears.

Many breadwinners in families have been lost due to this pandemic. People’s lives have been shattered causing untold misery in homes, villages, cities which will never be the same again.

Money matters for some, who will spare no effort chasing whatever and whichever way possible. Nowadays, the medical and hospital industry has been attractive enough to lure people to rake in income and profits be it on medical equipment, drugs and medicines. Such people should refrain from extracting and reaping profits from the sick and dying.


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Covid: Need to draw scientific comparison

BABLUIS PEREIRA, Pombupra
Published May 30, 2021, 12:55 AM IST
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Amidst deepening of coronavirus and breaking news of deaths, during conversation with a local elderly man on pandemic, he had shot back to the past-history and said that then many deadly jhoris (diseases) had spread, thousand people died a day and mass taken for burial during night times. Then, there was no ministry to complain, the only people’s beacon hope was in God, in times of most crucial hours they use to kneel on the stones and appeal praying to God in tears to…

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