: Covid handling Indias gravest governance failure: Congress #IndiaNEWS #Coronavirus New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday released the partys White Paper on management of Covid-19,

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New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday released the partys White Paper on management of Covid-19, accusing the Central government of not taking adequate measures to prevent and contain the pandemic.
Releasing the document at a virtual press conference, he said: This White Paper is a discussion that has taken place within the Congress structure and we have had a discussion with the experts and we have basically developed four pillars.
The first, Gandhi said, is the idea of understanding exactly what went wrong, which is the foundation of the White Paper. The second pillar is preparation for the third wave, which includes developing the critical infrastructure, including oxygen, and other elements.
The third pillar that we have been repeating again and again and again, is the idea of an economic assistance package. Covid is not just a biological phenomenon, it is also an economic and social phenomenon and that is why we have to make sure that the poorest people, the weakest people, small and medium businesses are provided support, that they need to get through and the fourth and final element is a Covid compensation fund, where we give money to people who have lost loved ones, where we commit to them support of the Indian nation and say look, we stand with you in this difficult time, he said.
The White Paper termed the mismanagement of the Covid pandemic as Indias gravest governance failure and charged the Narendra Modi government with not taking adequate measures to prevent and contain the pandemic.
It said that the Modi governments handling of the Covid-19 crisis began with its early inaction in January 2020, and how ignored early warnings from experts and political leaders from the opposition.
It failed to learn from the lessons and response models of other countries which had been hit by the pandemic, it said, adding that the government did not scale up nationwide lessons from Keralas experience in successfully suppressing the Nipah virus outbreak.
This inaction for a period of nearly two months was completely avoidable and cost us dearly, it held. The White Paper suggested that the Modi government should have acted with seriousness and urgency after the outbreak of the pandemic in other countries, learnt from their lessons and followed the 3Ts Testing at scale, Tracing with diligence and Treating with precision.
It also said that the government should have screened all international passengers and quarantined them as necessary from January 2020, and also tested symptomatic persons with no travel history.
The Congress White Paper also criticised the governments initial response consisting of measures like the Janata Curfew, thali clanging and diya lighting, which did not adequately communicate the risks from Covid-19 to the public.

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