PM Modi appeals to citizens to not let their guard down
Geneva/New Delhi: The global figures of confirmed confirmed cases of COVID-19 crossed the four crore mark and was at 40,121,878, including 1,114,917 deaths, reported to the World Health Organisation.
In India the total figures has already crossed 75 lakh mark and today stood at 75, 97, 063 (next only to the USA), and 1, 15,197 total deaths (third highest after the USA and Brazil).
In the last 24 hours, India yet again recorded the globally highest number of fresh corona cases (46,790) and deaths (587) as well. In comparison 46,378 fresh cases and 472 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours in the USA, which continues to lead the pack with 80,65, 615 cases and 218131 deaths overall.
Rather disconcertingly, amid fear that COVID-19 transmission was shifting from local to community, Nagaland’s tally inched towards 8000 mark with total 7,953 cases on Monday. It may be mentioned that so far India had only seen cluster of cases.
However, a silver lining was that the new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours fell below 50,000 (46,790) for the first time in nearly three months in India. The deaths too were reported below 600 for second consecutive day. Of the 587 case fatalities reported in the last 24 hours, nearly 81% were concentrated in ten States/UTs. The percentage active cases too fell 10% and the total positive cases of the country today were less than 7.5 lakh (7,48,538) and comprised 9.85% of the total cases. The slide in active cases is supplemented by an exponential rise in recoveries and the total recovered cases have crossed 67 lakhs (67,33,328) in the country.
In Karnataka, after gap of seven months, first passenger train between Karnataka and TN would run on October 23. To mark the ongoing Navratri and Diwali festivals, the South Western Railway (SWR) will run five pairs of festival special trains from October 23 to December 2. In Bengaluru, Health Minister K Sudhakar Sudhakar held a meeting and took stock of disease spread in flood-hit districts; he interacted with Deputy Commissioners, ZP CEOs and health officers of Kalaburagi, Bagalakot, Koppal, Yadgir, Belagavi and Vijayapura, which have been hit by heavy rain and floods.
Meanwhile, in a televised address to the nation today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a fervent appeal to all the citizens to not let their guard down and become complacent, in the country’s ongoing fight against the Covid Pandemic. Modi said despite the lockdown having been lifted it did not mean that the Corona Virus was wiped out. He warned people not to be callous, amidst all these efforts and not to assume that the corona virus is gone, or that there is no danger from the corona now.
Cautioning the people who had stopped taking precautions of late, he said “If you are negligent and going out without a mask, you are exposing yourself, your family, your children, the elderly to the same amount of risk.”
The Prime Minister referred to the ongoing situation in the US and Europe where the number of cases of Corona initially decreased but then suddenly started increasing. He urged the people not to be negligent until a vaccine against the pandemic was found and let the fight against the Covid-19 weaken.
– globalbihari bureau
