NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has once again warned the masses not to be careless as coronavirus cases continue to rise in the country despite extreme precautionary measures taken by the Center and state governments.
The prime minister, while addressing a meeting in Madhya Pradesh via video conference on Saturday, shared a catchphrase to highlight the importance of social distancing and masks in fighting the disease until a vaccine is developed.
“Jab tak dawai nahi, tab tak dhilai nahi. Do gaj ki doori, mask hai jaroori (There is no neglect until a drug is found, it is necessary to mask and keep a distance of two meters)”, said the prime minister as he headed to the virtual house opening ceremony of 1.75 lakh of houses built in rural areas of the state under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
The prime minister’s warning comes at a time when about a lakh of coronavirus cases are reported daily across the country.
Earlier this month, India crossed Brazil to become the second most affected county by the coronavirus in the world. Some experts have said that the country is likely to cross the United States, which has the highest number of coronavirus cases, in the coming months if the current growth rate is not stopped.
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India currently has more than 46.5 lakh of cases, including more than 77,000 deaths.
The COVID-19 case burden in India surpassed 46 lakh with a record 97,570 infections reported in one day, while 36.24,196 people have recovered so far, bringing the national recovery rate to 77.77 per one hundred on Saturday, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health.
The total number of coronavirus cases rose to 46.59,984, while the death toll rose to 77,472 with 1,201 people succumbing to the infection within 24 hours, updated data showed at 8 a.m.
The COVID-19 case fatality rate due to coronavirus infection has dropped further to 1.66 percent. There are 9.58,316 active cases of COVID-19 in the country, which represents 20.56 percent of the total cases, according to the data.
India’s COVID-19 count had crossed the 20 lakh mark on August 7, 30 lakh on August 23, and surpassed 40 lakh on September 5. According to the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 5.40, 97,975 samples have been analyzed as of September 10 and 11.63,542 samples have been analyzed on Friday.
Prime Minister Modi, ever since the coronavirus pandemic began to spread in India, has been emphasizing social distancing as the most effective weapon against the virus.
On Saturday, Bharat Biotech, which is developing the COVAXIN coronavirus vaccine in its latest report, said that an animal study has shown that a candidate vaccine has helped develop a strong immune response to the highly infectious coronavirus.
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