Come out with a national COVID strategy, former bureaucrat urges Centre
The Hindu
‘Declare nationwide lockdown till end of the month with social security cover’
With the daily new COVID-19 cases exceeding 4 lakhs and the daily number of deaths exceeding 4,000, and with nationwide shortages in terms of ambulances, hospital beds, ICU facilities, ventilators, oxygen and even cremation space, former Union Secretary E.A.S. Sarma, has asked the Central government to come out with a national COVID strategy. In a letter addressed to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, he has suggested the declaration of a National COVID Emergency, as part of the plan, which would include a nationwide lockdown till end of May with a comprehensive social security cover for migrant workers, deferment of all elections for the next six months at least and declare all healthcare equipment, drugs, facilities as essential ones to be subject to the State regulation.
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