PM Needs To Act Fast & Clear The Bottleneck To Increase Testing: Rahul Gandhi

The Congress leader has been continuously attacking the Centre over the Coronavirus pandemic status. Gandhi has raised questions like why the prices of petrol and diesel haven’t been lessened even after a slump in global oil prices

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New Delhi: The criticism of Congress party on the Central government got sharpened on Sunday over its approach in handling the spread of the Coronavirus outbreak in the country. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday prompted Prime Minister Narendra Modi to clear "bottlenecks" and ramp up coronavirus testing in the country. Quoting experts, Gandhi said, "random testing is the key to beating the virus". India has to scale up COVID-19 testing from the current 40,000 to one lakh tests per day, he said. Talking to Twitter, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told Prime Minister Narendra Modi needs to act fast and clear the bottleneck that is stopping India from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to one lakh tests a day.

Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating Corona. In India, a bottle neck is stopping us from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to 1 lakh tests a day, for which test kits are already in stock.

PM needs to act fast & clear the bottleneck. — Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) April 26, 2020

Rahul Gandhi quoted, "Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating Corona. In India, a bottleneck is stopping us from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to 1 lakh tests a day, for which test kits are already in stock". Congress has been urging the government to increase random testing in the country. Meanwhile, the Congress leader has been continuously attacking the Centre over the Coronavirus pandemic status. Gandhi has raised questions like why the prices of petrol and diesel haven’t been lessened even after a slump in global oil prices. Recently Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has termed the government decision to freeze Dearness Allowance of Central government employees for a year as "insensitive and inhuman." The number of Covid-19 cases in India crossed the 26,000-mark on Sunday. Although there's a relief as the rate of growth of the infection has slowed down, which the experts say is a sign that the country may have been able to largely avoid the initial deadly spectre of the pathogen that has damaged countries across the world. Also Watch | People taking the lead in fight against deadly virus: PM in Mann Ki Baat