Goa: Trouble in paradise, as Covid wreaks havoc
Joydeep Sen Gupta/New Delhi Filed on May 15, 2021
Paramilitary soldiers patrol along a street during a government-imposed lockdown as a preventive measure against coronavirus in Goa. Photo: AFP
The raging Covid-19 pandemic stokes debate about Goans vs outsiders.
Why is Goa, the picture postcard and the tiniest coastal Indian state, in the headlines for all the wrong reasons? Trouble in paradise?
The state, whose population is less than 60 per cent of Dubai at around two million (m), is in the throes of an unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic.
Goans said the second and the more lethal wave of the contagion started around Easter in early April.