New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a jibe at the BJP-run government in Gujarat and said that the high mortality rate due to COVID-19 has exposed the state's model for disease control.
"COVID-19 mortality rate: Gujarat: 6.25% Maharashtra: 3.73% Rajasthan: 2.32% Punjab: 2.17% Puducherry: 1.98% Jharkhand: 0.5% Chhattisgarh: 0.35% Gujarat Model exposed," Gandhi wrote on Twitter, quoting a news report.
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Covid19 mortality rate:
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 16, 2020 " class="align-text-top noRightClick twitterSection" data="
Gujarat: 6.25%
Maharashtra: 3.73%
Rajasthan: 2.32%
Punjab: 2.17%
Puducherry: 1.98%
Jharkhand: 0.5%
Chhattisgarh: 0.35%
Gujarat Model exposed.https://t.co/ObbYi7oOoD
">Covid19 mortality rate:
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 16, 2020
Gujarat: 6.25%
Maharashtra: 3.73%
Rajasthan: 2.32%
Punjab: 2.17%
Puducherry: 1.98%
Jharkhand: 0.5%
Chhattisgarh: 0.35%
Gujarat Model exposed.https://t.co/ObbYi7oOoDCovid19 mortality rate:
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) June 16, 2020
Gujarat: 6.25%
Maharashtra: 3.73%
Rajasthan: 2.32%
Punjab: 2.17%
Puducherry: 1.98%
Jharkhand: 0.5%
Chhattisgarh: 0.35%
Gujarat Model exposed.https://t.co/ObbYi7oOoD
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Meanwhile, Gujarat has the fourth-highest COVID-19 cases in India. The state saw its total death toll cross the 1,500-mark to reach 1,505 on Tuesday morning, taking the case tally to 24,055.
Though the number of positive cases being detected from the state's worst-hit Ahmedabad is gradually coming down, the cases are still spiralling, at an average of 488 cases daily.
IANS
