Congress accuses Centre of hiding the extent of Covid-19 spread

DHARAMSHALA: All India Congress Committee secretary and ex-Himachal minister Sudhir Sharma on Saturday accused the Centre of misleading public about the extent of Covid-19 spread. He alleged that the Centre is continuously denying that community spread had begun while “the rise in number of cases indicates the contrary.” “With around 1.74 lakh cases and around 4,900 deaths in country, it is inconceivable that there is no community spread,” he said. He asked if the Union government has a blueprint ready for tackling Covid-19 once the lockdown ends. He said as per experts, the number of cases were rapidly increasing and could be expected to peak in July.