Goa, Aug. 2 -- The COVID-19 pandemic keeps throwing up more and different challenges as the weeks go by. Not only has the State been struggling to contain the spread of the virus, it has had to deal with a host of other issues that it had been unprepared for simply because the government could not have foreseen what was going to occur. Tangled with this are other issues that have come up that are turning out to be lessons in learning for the State and even for the people, who have coming to the realisation of how dependent Goa is on the migrant labour force across almost all spheres of activities. It is pertinent to recall what had occurred in July-August last year to appreciate just how the situation has changed.

Last year around this t...