Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said that he was irked by
some people, who prefer to violate the 21-day lockdown to buy something as
trivial as a shampoo.
The government of
Goa on Sunday issued a notice, whereby, it authorised Swiggy,
Zomato and other home delivery platforms to operate and deliver food, groceries
and other essential items at doorsteps during the lockdown due to COVID-19.
"ECommerce operators such as @swiggy_in, @ZomatoIN and other platforms have been permitted to deliver food and grocery items. #GoaFightsCOVID19," the Goa Chief Minister's Office tweeted today.
Earlier, two more
coronavirus positive cases were reported in Goa on Sunday taking the state's tally
to five.
A total of 1024
positive cases of COVID-19
have been found in India, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on
Friday. 27 persons have lost their lives due to this disease in the country.
Twitter slams Goa
govt for food shortage, CRPF deployment
Amid growing
unease over inability of food and essential items in Goa and the state
government's decision to give central paramilitary forces a "free
hand" to punish curfew violators, several voices on Twitter have attempted
to highlight the plight of a population which has been facing a lockdown as a
food shortage for as many as eight days in a row.
COVID-19: People
violating lockdown to buy shampoo, says Goa CM
Goa Chief Minister
Pramod Sawant has said that he was irked by some people, who prefer to violate
the 21-day lockdown to buy something as trivial as a shampoo.
Sawant, whose
administration has been criticised for triggering panic in Goa, due to chronic
non-availability of essential goods in grocery stores across the state and the
requisition of central forces to impose the curfew, said that the Central
Industrial Security Force was pressed into service not to "punish
people" but to maintain law and order in the state.
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