Stop Politicising COVID-19  KTR to Opposition Parties

Municipal Administration Minister K T Rama Rao on Monday launched a scathing attack against the Opposition parties for seeking to politicise the COVID-19 crisis in the State instead of extending support to the government in fighting the pandemic.

Rama Rao wondered if Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be blamed for failure to contain coronavirus in the country, which has now come to occupy the third position in the world for the number of Covid-19 cases he said the entire world was severely affected by the pandemic and governments alone cannot contain the virus. He said it was unfortunate that minior issues were being magnified and used to create panic among the people. “While highlighting the death of two per cent of patients, one should not lose sight of the fact that the recovery rate in the State is 98 per cent which is no mean achievement. We are ready to consider any constructive suggestion from the Opposition leaders to improve medical services, but they are trying to demoralise the medical staff who are in the frontline in taking care of the patients,” he said, and urged the people to take all precautions while continuing with their daily work.T Today