Under-reporting won’t help, says Jr Thackeray
Even before Maharashtra stumps out the deadly second wave of the Covid-19, the State is apprehending a third wave, too. Maharashtra Cabinet Minister Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday said a third wave of Covid-19 was likely soon, though it cannot be determined now if it will be as strong as or weaker than the second wave.
He also said even if vaccination did not help right away, it will help prepare for the future. “Every decision the State is taking today is based on the task force we created last year...as per science and medical facts, not by politics,” Thackeray, the Maharashtra Tourism and Environment Minister, Aaditya said at the NDTV Solutions Summit.
“We have come to the genuine belief that under-reporting is not going to help...Now we are preparing for the third wave. We have five lakh beds, 70 per cent of them oxygenated,” he said.
In Mumbai, meanwhile, after a mid-night drama at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) Police station in north-central Mumbai over the detention of a director of a pharmaceutical company for allegedly hoarding 60,000 Remdesivir vials, State Home Minister Dilip Walse-Patil on Sunday indicated that the state the government might initiate action against leader of the Opposition Devendra Fadnavis and other BJP leaders for “interfering” in the investigations by the police.
Hours after a major controversy broke out over Fadnavis and other State BJP leaders’ visit to the BKC Police station shortly before midnight ostensibly to “enquire” about the detention of the director of Bruck Pharma, the State Home Minister confirmed that he had taken cognizance of the incident at the police station and hinted at the possibility of initiating action against Fadnavis and other BJP.