The Goa government today sent its officials to help actor Nafisa Ali who is stranded in the coastal state since lockdown was announced to contain coronavirus. Ali, a cancer survivor who is staying at Morjim village in North Goa district, had told earlier in the day that she was running out of her medicines.
After learning about her plight, the Goa Chief Minister's Office sent officials to help her. CMO Dr Pramod Sawant also posted a picture of the actor speaking with the officials while maintaining safe social distance. Earlier in a interview Nafisa revealed that she was staying with her daughter in Goa and finding it hard to get her medicines due to the nationwide lockdown.
"The first week was very hard here in Goa (after the lockdown was announced) but now vegetable shops are open. Goa was in a bad situation. Everything was locked down so there was nothing available, no water, vegetables, ration," she said. "One could not go out to buy anything because the cops would stop you.'' The actor, who lives in Delhi, had come to meet her daughter in Goa for a week.