"Lack Of Medical Facility": P Chidambaram On Declining Cases, Rising Deaths

"The number tested is also around 20 lakh per day. If the positivity rate is coming down, why is the number of deaths above 4000 per day?" P Chidambaram asked on Twitter.

The daily Covid-19 death figure remains above 4,000 despite a declining case positivity, indicating a lack of medical care, Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said Friday, inviting a prompt reply from Health Minister Harsh Vardhan who accused him of raising "unnecessary doubts" out of political compulsions. The Medical experts who are giving numerous interviews should answer the following questions:When the number of daily fresh infections has come down from 4 lakh+ to 2.5 lakh+, why is the number of deaths still above 4000 per day? Such a travesty!Political compulsions forcing Sh @PChidambaram_IN Ji to raise such questions.By order of #toolkit party I am sure…Certainly he's privy to general knowledge that time duration between contracting #COVID19 & recovery/mortality mostly exceeds a few weeks ! https://t.co/qygkLTV0JF Mr Vardhan also said that each death was unfortunate and the government was making every effort to fight the pandemic. He said as cases were declining, recoveries have started rising and mortalities would decline soon too. "The number tested is also around 20 lakh per day. If the positivity rate is coming down, why is the number of deaths above 4000 per day? Is it because of lack of proper medical care because of shortage of oxygen, medicines, ventilators, hospital beds etc," Mr Chidambaram asked on Twitter.