Losing the fight against a pandemic, one battle after another

The government’s promise to set up more isolation beds in the Valley has failed to materialise while money allocated for provinces has not been properly utilised, officials say.

If anyone is in isolation as Covid-19 cases continue to surge in the country, it’s the government. Officials say as more and more people got infected with the coronavirus, there were expectations that the authorities would increase the number of isolation beds. But that did not happen, according to them.