‘Alarming scenario’: BJP assaults Kerala authorities over excessive Covid-19 circumstances

By PTI

NEW DELHI: With Kerala consistently reporting properly over half of the nation’s each day COVID-19 circumstances, the BJP on Wednesday accused the Left authorities within the state of doing little to mitigate the well being disaster and being busy in “covering it up” via motivated propaganda.

Kerala on Wednesday reported 31,445 contemporary COVID-19 circumstances and 215 deaths, pushing the full an infection rely to 38,83,429 and the fatalities to 19,972.

The final time the state crossed the 30,000-mark was on May 20 when it witnessed 30,491 circumstances.

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With 24,296 new infections on Tuesday, it had reported almost 65 p.c of the nationwide circumstances.

Union minister and BJP chief V Muralidharan tweeted attacking Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, “Alarming COVID-19 scenario in Kerala, @vijayanpinarayi has clearly failed to guard individuals’s lives.

“Kerala alone recorded 24,296 cases & 173 deaths yesterday. @vijayanpinarayi’s illogical strategy & motivated media propaganda costing dearly the nation.”

BJP spokesperson Tom Vadakkan stated Kerala is within the grip of COVID-19, and the state authorities is busy overlaying it up.

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“Especially the newsreader turned health minister is busy reading the wrong script and spreading disinformation that everything is hunky-dory in Kerala,” he stated.

The actuality is that whereas the illness in virtually all different components of the nation is beneath management, little effort is being made to curb it within the state, he claimed.

Alleging that the state authorities has launched a “massive cover-up” by spreading disinformation, he stated the individuals of Kerala are struggling.