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After stressing to increase testing for COVID-19 in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra expressed concern over the shortage of testing kits in the state.
She also referred to tests reports of five persons who tested positive for coronavirus after their deaths.
Taking to Twitter on Tuesday, Priyanka posted: “I wrote a letter to the Chief Minister and requested to increase testing. Reports of five people have come positive for coronavirus after the death of patients in UP. Testing is still poor. Make the testing system rapid and orderly. Maximum testing can only give us correct picture.”
Earlier on April 10, Priyanka had written to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urging him to increase capacity of testing and treatment of COVID-19 patients in the state. Two days later, she again reminded the government on the shortage of testing kits.
Meanwhile, UP Congress celebrated the birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar in a sombre manner, distributing food and safety kits to safai karmacharis, poor and Dalits in Lucknow on Wednesday.
Slamming the ruling BJP at the Centre and UP, UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar `Lallu’ said that the marginalised sections were the worst sufferers of lockdown as the government had failed to cater to their food and other basics for survival. While welcoming the lockdown extension, Lallu said that the prime minister once again did not disclose any plan for helping daily wagers, poor and Dalits, who were now left with no money and food.