View: Covid is testing the robustness of the relationship between the Centre and states

It’s not that we don’t have laws and guidelines to prevent this anarchy. The Epidemic Diseases Act, enacted in 1897 to deal with the bubonic plague in Bombay, gives special powers to the states and the Centre, but the veto lies with Parliament. ronically, states threaten to invoke the state rules under the Act to deny medical supplies to others.

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