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“Our existence has come to be questioned with these decisions and we feel that the government is working with the same majoritarian mindset here as it is working elsewhere in the country.”
She also questioned Patel’s decision to open up the islands to tourists during the Covid-19 pandemic that is raging across the country.
“(Lakshadweep) did not have a single coronavirus case in the past year but since Patel allowed tourists to visit … it has over 7,000 cases and scores of deaths,” Kalpeni was quoted as saying in the report.
It is imperative that the number of infections is reduced, she said, because Lakshadweep does not have critical healthcare facilities; patients who require ventilators or other advanced forms of treatment have to be flown to Kerala.
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The major news headlines of the day, and more. Cyclone Yaas weakened into a severe cyclonic storm on May 26 afternoon after pounding the beach towns in north Odisha and neighbouring West Bengal with a wind speed of 130-145 kmph, inundating the low-lying areas amid a storm surge even as the two eastern states battled the COVID crisis, officials said.
Goa: Trouble in paradise, as Covid wreaks havoc
Joydeep Sen Gupta/New Delhi Filed on May 15, 2021
Paramilitary soldiers patrol along a street during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against coronavirus in Goa. Photo: AFP
The raging Covid-19 pandemic stokes debate about Goans vs outsiders.
Why is Goa, the picture postcard and the tiniest coastal Indian state, in the headlines for all the wrong reasons? Trouble in paradise?
The state, whose population is less than 60 per cent of Dubai at around two million (m), is in the throes of an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.
Goans said the second and the more lethal wave of the contagion started around Easter in early April.