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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation on Tuesday night. The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tweeted that the address will take place at 8 pm.
Shri @Narendra Modi will address the nation at 8 PM this afternoon.
– PMO India (@PMOIndia) May 12, 2020
This will be PM Modi’s third address to the nation on the Covid-19 situation. The last time he addressed the nation was April 14, and announced the extension of the blockade until May 3. Apart from this, the Prime Minister also addressed the nation when he asked the country to one day observe the Janta curfew.
The Prime Minister announced the 21-day closure of the coronavirus across the country on March 25 to break the chain of Covid-19 infections in the country.
The speech comes a day after Prime Minister Modi held a video conference with the chief ministers on the Covid-19 situation. The prime minister said at the meeting that states will have greater participation in determining the scope of restrictions and relaxations after May 17, within a broad national framework, stressing that India faced two challenges: reducing the transmission rate of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) and gradually resume public activity.
He also emphasized that social distancing remains the “biggest weapon” against the virus until a vaccine is found, and suggested that the blockade not be lifted entirely.
Prime Minister Modi also said that India now had a good idea of the spread of the disease and urged states to carefully examine specific geographic areas to develop a roadmap for the next phase of blockade.
“I firmly believe that the necessary measures in the first phase of the blockade were not necessary during the second phase and, similarly, the necessary measures in the third phase are not necessary in the fourth,” Prime Minister Modi said at the meeting, according to ANI news agency.
The country is in the third phase of closure that will end on May 17.
In the meeting with the chief ministers, Prime Minister Modi stressed the importance of green areas to restart economic activity, stressed that the total resumption of train travel would not be possible, he noted that India will have to use technology to imparting education and, more generally, he talked about how the pandemic will change the world, just like the world wars did. He said that the new beginning of life would be “jan se lekar jag tak” (from one individual to all humanity).
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