Gujarat reported 5,469 new instances of coronavirus on Sunday. (file picture)
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Excessive Courtroom pulled up the state authorities on Monday over the COVID-19 state of affairs within the state and issues being confronted by residents, saying the truth is opposite to what the federal government claims.
“Folks now suppose that they’re at God’s mercy,” a division bench of Chief Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Bhargav Karia mentioned whereas listening to a PIL, taken up suo motu (by itself), on the coronavirus state of affairs within the state.
After Advocate Common Kamal Trivedi knowledgeable the HC about steps taken by the Gujarat authorities to deal with the COVID-19 state of affairs, the court docket mentioned the truth is sort of completely different from what the federal government claims.
“The state of affairs is sort of completely different than what you’re claiming. You’re saying that the whole lot is alright. However, the truth is opposite to that,” the excessive court docket mentioned through the listening to held through video-conferencing.
There’s a “belief deficit” amongst individuals, it noticed. “There isn’t any scarcity of Remdesivir (key anti-viral drug). Every part is on the market with you. We wish outcomes, not causes,” the HC mentioned, on complaints of scarcity of Remdesivir injections for COVID-19 sufferers.
It now takes “virtually 5 days” for an individual to get the RT-PCR take a look at consequence, the court docket famous.
“You didn’t upscale the testing amenities once you had time,” the HC mentioned.
Gujarat reported 5,469 new instances of coronavirus on Sunday, its greatest single-day rise because the starting of the pandemic, which took its caseload to three,47,495.
The variety of deaths as a result of virus went as much as 4,800 as 54 sufferers succumbed to the an infection on Sunday, as per the state well being division.
