COVID-19 Storm Has Shaken Country, Testing Patience: PM On "Mann Ki Baat"

In his monthly Mann Ki Baat broadcast, PM Modi spoke to doctors, nurses and frontline workers, who shared their experience and expressed confidence that people will soon come out of this crisis.

Noting that the second wave of COVID-19 is testing people's patience and their limit to bear pain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said today that this "toofan" (storm) has shaken the country after it was full of spirit and self-confidence after successfully tackling the first wave. In his monthly "Mann Ki Baat" broadcast, PM Modi spoke to doctors, nurses and frontline workers, who shared their experience and views on the disease, and expressed confidence that people will soon come out of this crisis. The over 30-minute broadcast was entirely focused on the pandemic, which has been rampaging across the country for weeks, with PM Modi asserting that defeating the disease is the biggest priority. He urged countrymen to go for vaccination against the disease and cautioned them against rumours about it.