Covid-19 lockdown: Rahul Gandhi suggests the government to focus on testing

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said the government must plan proper steps in lifting the nationwide lockdown because lockdown can only halt the spread of covid-19, not end it.

“Lockdown is not a solution, neither a treatment. Therefore, we must develop a strategy to exit from the lockdown phase. PM’s should play a pivotal role to empower the states,” Rahul Gandhi said while addressing a press conference in New Delhi.

Expounding on this, he said a lockdown can’t overcome the infection, it can just stop it for some time. “The greatest weapon to battle it is to focus on developing the testing. It resembles a delay button, it’s not a solution. When we come out, the infection will spread again,” he said, adding that a lockdown permits time to increase readiness.

Rahul Gandhi said the administration needs to immediately expand testing for Covid-19 in the nation. “India’s testing rate is extremely low at 199 for each million up until this point. We have to amp up testing,” he said.

Depicting the predominant circumstance as a “crisis”, Rahul Gandhi said it is significant that the battle against Covid-19 is taken to the district level. “To battle Covid-19, our primary power must be at state and region level,” he said.

Rahul Gandhi likewise hailed Kerala’s accomplishment in controlling Covid-19 as a triumph and said it is a model. “The battle need to be bottom up and not top down. PM’s job ought to be to empower the states.”