PM Narendra Modi directly monitoring India’s response to counter Covid-19 challenges

Modi stressed that India considers vaccines as not only vital to good health but also as a global good, and it is India’s duty to assist other countries, including the nations in our neighbourhood, in the collective fight against the virus.

ByIFP Bureau

Updated 30 Nov 2020, 2:58 am

PM Modi at Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad (PHOTO: Twitter/@narendramodi)
PM Modi at Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad (PHOTO: Twitter/@narendramodi)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been directly monitoring India’s response to the challenges faced in countering the COVID-19 pandemic. As a part of the monitoring exercise, he undertook a three-city tour on Saturday to review the vaccine development and manufacturing process. He visited the Zydus Biotech Park in Ahmedabad, Bharat Biotech in Hyderabad and Serum Institute of India in Pune. Two of these sites are where India is indigenously developing vaccines to fight COVID-19 and the third site is a mega-sized vaccine manufacturing facility.

During his visit, the prime minister told the scientists that he chose to meet them face to face in order to boost their morale and help accelerate their efforts at this critical juncture in the vaccine development journey, a PIB release stated.

Modi stressed that India considers vaccines as not only vital to good health but also as a global good, and it is India’s duty to assist other countries, including the nations in our neighbourhood, in the collective fight against the virus, the release stated.

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As of 28 November, India has 6,731 cases per million population, which is one of the lowest among major nations. In terms of number of deaths per million population also, India has fared better than many advanced nations with 98 deaths per million population. (In comparision USA saw 813, Brazil saw 805, France saw 780, Spain saw 955, UK saw 846 and Italy saw 888 deaths per million population).

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Modi has been at the forefront of the fightback against the pandemic and has been personally monitoring India's statistics every morning since early March. He has called up chief ministers to speak to them away from the public eye (to avoid any chance of politicization) to get a sense of the situation. He has chaired at least once COVID-19 related meeting a week over the last nine months, and most have been away from the public eye. He has interacted with all sections of society from healthcare professionals, to sportspersons, to media to even radio jockeys, to motivate them to spread awareness, learn from them, know their experience, harness their expertise, the PIB release added.

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