Karnataka Govt. lying about COVID-19 cases dropping: Siddu
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Karnataka Govt. lying about COVID-19 cases dropping: Siddu

May 23, 2021

Bengaluru: Digging on the ruling BJP Government on hiding Covid-19 cases, Leader of the Opposition in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly Siddharamaiah on Saturday alleged that Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa administration was “lying” to the people about cases coming down in the State, underlining the drop in the number of tests being done.

In a series of tweets, he said as on April 25 circular issued by National Health Mission (Karnataka) Director Dr. Arundhati Chandrashekar, according to which random testing of asymptomatic persons has been suspended until further orders.

The actual reason behind the CM’s lie that Covid cases are reducing is the BJP’s Government circular that asymptomatic persons should not be tested. Siddharamaiah said.

“It is this foolish decision of the BJP Government, due to which Covid isn’t coming under control in spite of the lockdown,” Siddharamaiah argued. “There are chances that an infected person, who isn’t tested because of no symptoms, will infect many others with the Coronavirus.”

Congress leader cited testing numbers to buttress his argument. “The Chief Minister boasted that case numbers fell from 49,000 in the first week of May to 38,000 within days of imposing a lockdown. But, he did not say that the number of tests went down from 1,77,560 on April 1 to 97,000 on May 17,” he said.

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