‘Govt should brace for possible third wave’
Sounding an alarm bell, leader of opposition in Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Monday said the state government should start preparing for the possible third wave of coronavirus infection. Hooda said emphasis should be now on strengthening the health services infrastructure in Haryana.
At a press briefing on Monday, the former chief minister said a lot of planning will have to be done to handle the post-corona conditions such as inflation, recession, poverty and unemployment. “The unemployment rate in Haryana has reached 35.1% and every third person of the state is unemployed. The government should lend a helping hand to those whose business has been affected during the pandemic,” he said.
Hooda demanded that government should give ₹5 lakh each to the families of the people who lost their lives due to Covid.
“Pension should also be announced for families with no bread-earner left in their family.
But for this, the government must first collect the correct figures of those who died. It is clear that the number of people who died from the pandemic is much higher than the numbers put out by the government,” he said.
Hooda said he did not agree with the statement of chief minister ML Khattar who said the government had slowed down the pace of vaccination. “Instead of decreasing the pace of vaccination, it needs to be increased,” he said. Hooda said the government had failed in containing the pandemic and the state health minister himself issued a statement saying that the situation has become so bad that the army will have to be called.