{"id":322625,"date":"2020-04-26T13:25:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322625"},"modified":"2020-04-26T13:25:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T13:25:17","slug":"clear-bottlenecks-increase-random-covid-19-testing-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/clear-bottlenecks-increase-random-covid-19-testing-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Clear bottlenecks, increase random COVID-19 testing\u2019: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310205 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul.jpg 474w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Rahul-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that India has not been able to scale up its testing for COVID-19 due to bottlenecks and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into the issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating corona. In India, a bottleneck is stopping us from scaling testing from the current 40,000 per day to 1 lakh tests a day, for which test kits are already in stock.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;PM needs to act fast and clear the bottleneck,&#8221; he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former Congress President has been attacking the Centre over the Covid-19 crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Friday, he said that the government\u2019s decision to freeze Dearness Allowance (DA) of Central government employees and pensioners for a year was insensitive and inhuman, instead the government should have suspended bullet train and\u00a0Central Vista beautification project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is an insensitive and inhuman decision of the government to cut DA of central employees, pensioners and jawans, serving the public while fighting COVID-19,\u201d Rahul had tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLakhs and crores are being spent on the Bullet Train and Central Vista beautification project which should have been suspended,\u201d Rahul added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that India has not been able to scale up its testing for COVID-19 due to bottlenecks and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look into the issue. Rahul in a tweet said, &#8220;Experts agree that mass random testing is the key to beating corona. In India, a bottleneck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322626,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322625\/revisions\/322626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}