Opposition parliamentarian Dr Karen Cummings on Wednesday stated that the former APNU+AFC coalition government managed the COVID-19 pandemic in a timely manner and left the new health minister with “a good pitch and wicket to bat” in the public health sector.
Dr Cummings made these remarks on Wednesday during the 2020 national budget debate at the Arthur Chung Conference, a day before Health Minister Frank Anthony would pillory the former administration’s stewardship of the health sector and say it compromised the response COVID-19.
Cummings, however, claimed that the former government managed the pandemic in a “timely, methodical, strategic and structured way.”
