On the second day of his two-day conversation with District Magistrates of several cities across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about the strategies to be adopted by the administration to deal with Covid19. He said that the strategies should be dynamic, innovative, and constantly upgraded as he underlined the dangers posed by the virus which, he noted, is invisible and often mutates.
The officials, who interacted with the Prime Minister via video-conferencing, were from Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Describing the virus as “dhoort” and “bahurupia” in Hindi, the Prime Minister in interaction with district magistrates (DM) and field officials also underlined concerns expressed in various quarters about the threats it poses to the youth and children.
- He asked the officials to keep track of the spreading virus and record the spread of its infection and its seriousness among them in their districts.
- He also expressed a need to prevent vaccine wastage, saying every dose wasted is denying someone protection shield against the disease.
- PM Modi further asked them to work to rid the rural areas of the infection and talk to villagers to guide them.
- He exclaimed a need to ensure COVID appropriate behavior even after the number of cases goes down.
- “While the cases have gone down in numbers, the challenge remains as long as the infection remains even at a minor scale,” he said
- The prime minister praised the officials for their efforts in making the good use of existing resources to fight “the biggest disaster in 100 years”
