Second wave of COVID-19 a direct consequence of government’s incompetence: Congress Working Committee

Sonia Gandhi says country has paid a ‘horrendous price’ for govt neglect

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is nothing short of “a grave calamity and a direct consequence of the Narendra Modi government’s indifference, insensitivity and incompetence,” the Congress Working Committee (CWC) said in a resolution on Monday. The CWC, that met virtually , spent considerable time time discussing in the coronavirus situation. In her opening remarks, party president Sonia Gandhi said the country had paid a ‘horrendous price’ for the Modi government’s neglect and the health system had collapsed. The CWC expressed concern over the government’s vaccination strategy, insufficient supplies, ‘opaque and discriminatory’ pricing policy and mandatory online registration that would exclude people in rural areas and from poor economic background to walk-in for vaccination. It pointed out that the infection had travelled ‘massively’ into rural areas that had no access to RT PCR testing, medicines, oxygen or hospitalisation and it had resulted in a large number of painful deaths.