Members of the Navi Mumbai unit of the Congress on Sunday burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and hoisted black flags in Nerul, as part of the party’s Statewide agitation to mark seven yea
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not understood the severity of the Covid-19 crisis.
“It is not a common disease, it keeps on mutating,” the Congress leader said during a virtual press conference. “The more time you give it, the more dangerous it gets.” Gandhi said that no one understood the first wave of the pandemic “but the second wave is the prime minister’s responsibility”.
“It is a result of his theatrics and the lack of his responsibility,” Gandhi added, according to PTI. “It is time for the prime minister to be a leader and display leadership skills and show courage and not come out with excuses and blame others.”
NEW DELHI As India reeled under a deadly second wave of COVID-19, with massive shortages of medical supplies and hospital beds, authorities finally understood the need to rapidly vaccinate the country’s billion-plus population. Many people live densely crowded together, with little access to proper healthcare. Vaccines play an essential role in preventing severe illness from COVID-19.
Here are the updates from Friday:
The Goods and Services Tax Council, led by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Friday decided to exempt Integrated Goods and Services Tax on import of free Covid-related supplies till August 31,
The Indian Express reported. The council also added Amphotericin B, the drug used in the treatment of mucormycosis, or “black fungus”, in the list of items exempted from the IGST.
India reported 1,86,364 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours on Friday morning, taking the overall tally to 2,75,55,457 since the pandemic first broke out in January 2020. The toll rose by 3,660 to 31,88,95, while the active caseload stood at 23,43,152.