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“I think Covid has become the most important issue in today’s phase and it will also remain the most important issue in the last phase of the polls on Thursday,” said Moloy Prakash Mitra, 49, who voted at a booth on Ballygunge Circular Road.
“Issues like unemployment and development have become secondary. It is now a question of life and death,” said the businessman.
Sukla Mitra, 70, Moloy’s mother, added: “There can be no justification for allowing such huge rallies and meetings. No one was wearing masks during election campaigns and there was no distancing. Yet the rallies continued.”
Sixty-nine-year-old Chandra Chatterjee, who voted at a booth in Lake Market, found “no justification” for having eight-phase polls in Bengal. “The eight-phase polls are squarely responsible for the Covid situation in Bengal today. If elections can be held in two-three phases in other states, then why not in Bengal?” she asked.
The state government on Thursday almost completed distribution of Covid-19 vaccine doses to the sites in Calcutta and other parts of Bengal that have cold storage points and was ready with the list of people to be vaccinated on Saturday.
According to the initial plan, the doses will be administered four days a week, said a health department official.
“On other two days of the week, other immunisation programmes will be held. Sunday is a holiday. The Covid vaccine plan has been prepared in a way that other immunisation programmes are not affected. This is being followed in other parts of the country, too,” said the official.