PM Modi said, “Despite our large population, we minimised the deaths and our recovery rate is 50%. That has become a point of discussion across the world”
NEW DELHI| On Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted meeting with chief ministers to discuss how best to tackle the health crisis due to the pandemic. PM Modi said, “India’s fight against coronavirus will serve as an example of cooperative federalism.”
PM Modi stressed that the economy has started to look up. The meeting comes in the backdrop of a violent face-off with China’s People’s Liberation Army on Monday night in eastern Ladakh.
PM Modi at the start of the two-day meeting said, “We are coming back to normalcy through unlock 1. If we follow, all the precautions and the SOPs, we will be able to battle it out with minimal damage. When India’s fight against Covid-19 will be analysed in future, this time will be remembered for how we worked together and served as an example of cooperative federalism.”
With an “economic focus”, the centre, what it dubbed Unlock 1, went about gradually opening the economy in a three-phased plan. The domestic flights have started resumption of services, the shopping malls, restaurants, places of the workshop have been opened. Metro services, however, remain shut. Public transport such as busses, private cabs, too is available under the new guidelines. A lockdown is still in place in containment zones till June 30.
“Despite our large population, we minimised the deaths and our recovery rate is 50%. That has become a point of discussion across the world,’’ PM Modi said.
Many Indians are returning to the country in the recent past on which PM Modi said yet the impact of coronavirus here is not “that huge” as compared to the world situation.
PM said, “In the last few weeks, thousands of Indians returned to India from abroad and hundreds of migrant workers reached their hometowns. Almost all modes of transport have resumed operations, still, Covid-19 impact has not been that huge in India as in other parts of the world.”
Speaking about the ‘unlocking’ process that began on June 1, the PM Modi said that the call for “do gaj ki doori” (social distancing) was crucial at this point along with wearing a face cover while stepping out. Individual experiences of states could be shared with each other so that there was collective learning, he added.
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