NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that the Covid second wave was bad, but the third wave could be worse, hence the focus should be on vaccination as Covid death toll could be five to six times higher in India.
Responding to a question on data being fudged on Covid deaths, Rahul Gandhi said in the press conference that, "It is sure and there is no doubt that the government is hiding the truth. In my view, the number of death is five to six times of the reported figure, but it is not productive for us to get into discussion of number of deaths as to how many people died. Of course, the compensation is critical and there are ways in which figures can be verified but the discussion should not be on the numbers, but it should be on what we should do next." "We can attack the government after the pandemic is over -- that you lied on the numbers but today is the time and again I am repeating myself, if you think the second wave was bad, then the third wave is going to be worse. So focus should be on vaccination and we should ensure that virus should not be given space to regenerate," he added.
Rahjul Gandhi asserted that the only way out is to vaccinate 100 percent of the population and the focus should be on it, while saying that it's good that more than 80 lakh people took vaccines on Monday, but this should be an ongoing process. He also asked the government to make Covid fund for the families who lost their kin and implement the NYAY scheme.
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