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.
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Argentine President Alberto Fernández on Monday announced that he received the support of Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa to negotiate the debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The European country s support was granted in the first meeting (of several planned throughout the week) held by the Argentine head of state on the old continent. Now President Fernández will seek support from countries such as France, Spain . . .
The meeting between the European Union leaders and the Prime Minister of India was “a success” in the opinion of Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, opening doors so that “we can move forward and quickly implement these new agreements” on trade and investment, with the 27 having decided to resume negotiations after an impasse of eight years.
“This is the first time we’ve had a summit where the Indian Prime Minister met with the European institutions and with the 27 leaders of the Union”, Costa emphasised after the meeting in the Palácio de Cristal in Porto, which brought Narendra Modi, via video conference, and the EU Heads of State or Government together. Costa believes it was “very significant” that the meeting went ahead despite the worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic situation in India, obliging Modi to cancel his trip to Portugal some weeks ago.
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