Coronavirus Pandemic LIVE Updates: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday said that the mantra for economic relief is “be vocal about local”. His tweet came minutes after emphasized on self-reliance. “Corona crisis has also taught us the importance of local supply chains, local markets has stepped into help us. Time has taught us that we have to now think local. Even global brands were once local. When people used it, branded these products, marketed them, those products became global from local. We need to be vocal for our local products. Not just buy but also publicise them,” he said.
“Whenever I have asked anything of you , you have always responded, as in the case of when I asked you to buy Khaadi. Very quickly sales peaked. It is a small example but important on what can be done. This crisis is big but we cannot allow Covid-19 to define us,” the prime minister further said.
Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan today said that India’s mortality rate is among the lowest in the world. He added that while our mortality rate was around 3.2% with several states recording even less than that, the global fatality rate was around 7.5%.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address the nation at 8pm today, a day after he spoke to chief ministers of various states through video conferencing on the strategy to be adopted once phase 3 of the lockdown ends on May 17. The last time the prime minister had addressed the nation was on April 14.
India today crossed the 70,000-mark for Covid-19 cases while the death toll jumped to 2,293 with 87 fatalities in 24 hours. The active cases in the country stand at 46,008, while those cured are 22,454. The numbers come on a day when the country takes the first steps towards normalising public activity with the Indian Railways resuming passenger services on restricted routes.
The services will resume initially with 15 pair of trains, or a total of 30 journeys, the national transporter said, 51 days after the services were halted. Passenger trains will depart from New Delhi Railway Station and connect to Mumbai, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Howrah, Thiruvananthapuram, Patna, Jammu, Dibrugarh, Agartala, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and Madgaon.
The novel coronavirus has infected over 4.1 million people and led to the deaths of more than 2.8 lakh.
The United States recorded 830 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 80,352. The figure followed Sunday’s toll of 776, the lowest daily tally since March, though major concerns remain over the number of deaths continuing to climb as some US states relax their lockdowns.
The country — hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of the number of fatalities — has now confirmed a total of 1,346,723 cases, the Baltimore-based school reported.
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