Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the World Economic Forum’s online Davos Agenda Summit today, touching on the Coronavirus pandemic and how India dealt with the global issue. Modi highlighted India’s achievements amidst the pandemic said that India was among the few nations that managed to save the most lives during the pandemic. This comes a week after India started a mass inoculation drive.
“Right now there are two made in India vaccines. World Economic Forum will be relieved to know that in the time to come many more vaccines will come from India,” the Prime Minister said.
Modi addressed the Davos Dialogue via video conferencing, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement on Wednesday. More than 400 top industry leaders from across the globe will attend the session, wherein the prime minister will be speaking on the Fourth Industrial Revolution-using technology for the good of humanity.
The country continues to be second-most-affected globally and ranks 13th among worst-hit nations by active cases. The five most affected states by total cases are Maharashtra (2,015,524), Karnataka (937,383), Kerala (905,591), Andhra Pradesh (887,349), and Tamil Nadu (836,315). As many as 2.3 million beneficiaries have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in India. This is 0.1698 per cent of its population.
According to these new guidelines, to be effective for February 1, there shall be no restriction on inter-state and intra-state movement of people and goods including those for cross land-border trade under treaties with neighbouring countries.