Vijayawada: PCC expresses concern over rise in Covid cases

Vijayawada: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) on Monday expressed concern over the unusually growing number of Covid-19 cases throughout the country and in the State.

"It appears both the Centre and the State governments became helpless in containing the pandemic," it said.

APCC president Dr Sake Sailajanath said in a statement here that the number of cases crossed 3.3 lakh throughout the country post-lockdown whereas it was only 500 before the lockdown. "Both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy appears to be leaving people to their fate finally holding them responsible for the spread of the pandemic," he said.

He said that the lockdown left a trail of blood along the national highways throughout the country and it is still continuing.

Expressing concern over the spread of the pandemic like water under a carpet, he flayed the governments for lifting the lockdown prematurely keeping an eye on the revenue and failing to bring awareness among people to take precautions.

It has been said that the Prime Minister is going to conduct meeting with the Chief Ministers and contemplating to clamp the lockdown once again, he said and warned that the lives of the poor and the middle class people would be destroyed if they did so.

Referring to the statement of Congress president Rahul Gandhi that if people have money the purchasing power would improve, he said that the Congress is demanding transfer of money to the people's accounts. Extending suggestions, the APCC chief said that the essential commodities should be made available at cheaper prices if not free, people should be sensitised on wearing masks, social distance and sanitisation. He also demanded that the sanitisers and masks should be made available at 90 per cent subsidy.