On 20 July, Union Health Ministry voiced about the COVID 19 situation of India in the Rajya Sabha.
According to the Union Health Ministry, in the past 24 hours, India have recorded 30,093 fresh COVID 19 cases. Around 374 fatalities were caused due to the infection.
While speaking about the pandemic, Union Health Minister, Manshuk Mandaiya yet again raised concerns about the third wave of COVID 19 hitting the country in the coming months. He stated, “When we speak of third wave, the 130 crore people should make a collective decision that we won’t let a third wave hit our country. Our resolutions and PM Modi’s guidance can save us from the third wave.”
Manshuk Madaiya further affirmed that he has data which suggests that many states it the country have around 10-15 lakhs vaccine doses.
“When there’s need to work together and implementation has to be done by the states, at that time we never said that this state failed or that state didn’t do this” he added.
Most probably while responding to Sanjay Raut allegation about the government hiding data, the health minister notified, “Center compiles and publishes the data sent by the state governments. Our work is to publish that data, and nothing else. We haven’t told anyone to show less number of death or less positive cases. There is no reason for that.”
The Shiv Sena MP questioned the government about hiding data on COVID deaths. Furthermore, he mentioned that the reports suggests more deaths than the government’s official figures.
In addition, the Minister of State (Health) Bharati Pravin Pawar asserted, “There are no reports of concealing of deaths by the states/Union territories. However, some of the states based on reconciliation of the mortality data have revised their figures.”
