Two Employees At Bajaj Auto's Aurangabad Plant Die Of Covid-19, 140 Others Infected

Two employees at the Aurangabad Plant of Bajaj Auto have died due to Covid-19 and 140 have been infected in total, Press Trust of India has reported.

The plant meanwhile has been shut for two days so that proper sanitation measures can be carried out. 8,100 individuals including employees and contractors are employed at the plant. The first Covid-19 case was reported on 6 June.

Rajiv Bajaj, the managing director of the company, has been a trenchant critic of lockdown as a method to control the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. He had advocated homeopathy and herd immunity as the way forward to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Bajaj had said that homeopathy has been documented to be quite effective in pandemics similar to coronavirus. He claimed that both in 1918 Spanish Flu or the recent Cuban epidemic, the doctors who treated their patients with homeopathy lost a fraction of patients as compared to those who were treated with allopathic medicine.

In a video conversation with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Bajaj (whose family enjoys close proximity with the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty) termed the lockdown "draconian" and claimed that such steps were not even enforced during the World War.