India delayed the import of COVID-19 testing kits, the key to fighting the pandemic, and is now “nowhere in the game” of mass testing, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi said on Tuesday. Taking to twitter, Mr. Gandhi claimed the testing levels rank among the lowest, even lower than the least developed countries like Laos, Niger and Honduras. “India delayed the purchase of testing kits & is now critically short of them. At present we are nowhere in the game,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted hours after Mr. Modi’s address to the nation. There is money, there is food but the government will not release either money or food,” Mr. Chidambaram said, adding the Chief Ministers’ request for additional funds had also been ignored.

Source: The Hindu April 14, 2020 10:51 UTC