Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Tuesday criticised the new SOPs set by the Maharashtra government, claiming that subjecting symptomatic Covid-19 patients to antigen tests was pointless.

Speaking to reporters at the State Secretariat, following a video conference with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with Chief Ministers of all states, Sawant also said that the conference had been organised to review the Covid situation in all states, as well as to discuss the modalities of creating a nationwide distribution network for the Covid-19 mass vaccination programme.