Share This - x The Gujarat High Court on Thursday observed that had the Gujarat Government taken pre-emptive steps earlier, the present grim situation of COVID-19 pandemic could have been avoided. "If the state had taken steps, not that the State was sleeping, but if there was a push, if all of this had been done earlier, before the PIL was registered, situation would have been better", Chief Justice Vikram Nath told Advocate General Kamal Trivedi. While the AG maintained that the State was adequately prepared, CJ said "no, you have the complete machinery &resources to see if things are controlled. But this is not being done".