After the Prime Minister, now the NITI Aayog CEO too has told him the truth. The civic body strongly objected to the allegations and said it followed the directives issued by the WHO and ICMR. Those are fixed by the Central government and ICMR,” the civic body said. It also said that the civic body had been following the ICMR’s directions of 70:30 testing ratio in which 70% were RT-PCR while the rest were antigen tests. On Sunday, at a meeting of BJP workers, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari advised Mr. Fadnavis and other State BJP workers to avoid politics in the times of COVID-19.

Source: The Hindu May 10, 2021 19:49 UTC