In an un­prece­dented move, ex­press­ing his full de­ter­mi­na­tion to fight the Covid19 spread, In­di­a’s Prime Min­is­ter Naren­dra Modi, in his sec­ond broad­cast to the peo­ple of In­dia has an­nounced a com­plete lock­down for 21 days in the length and breadth of the vast coun­try.

REPEAT­ING HIS AP­PEAL MANY TIMES OVER, cit­ing re­ports of the World Health Or­gan­i­sa­tion, he cau­tioned that even a healthy-look­ing per­son can spread the Covid19 even af­ter a long time gap and urged the peo­ple not to cross the lak­sh­man rekha -the bound­ary line of their house­holds for the next 21 days.

He cited the WHO sta­tis­tic that the first hun­dred thou­sand peo­ple were in­fected with Coro­n­avirus in 67 days, the next hun­dred thou­sand in the next 11 days and then the next hun­dred in the next 4 days and there­fore we have to stay home.

He said that the only hope is to stay in­doors as has been demon­strated by some coun­tries where the cit­i­zens fol­lowed the di­rec­tions of the gov­ern­ment to stay in­doors. He re­peated again and again, “There is no op­tion. Every­one from the Prime Min­is­ter to the com­mon per­son in the vil­lages has to stay in­doors.” He cau­tioned that any letup dur­ing these 21 days will push us back by 21 years.

“We have to break the stage of the spread of the virus. To­day, our ac­tions will de­ter­mine whether we are de­ter­mined to stop the spread of the virus.”

“Jaan hai to Ja­han hai”  – if there is life, there is so­cial life. I urge you with folded hands to pray for those who are ful­fill­ing their du­ties -the doc­tors, the nurses, the para­med­ical staff, the am­bu­lance staff, the san­i­ta­tion work­ers, the patho­log­i­cal staff who are fight­ing to save each and every life.

WAR ON COVID19 IN­DIA AN­NOUNCES FULL LOCK­DOWN IN THE EN­TIRE COUN­TRY.

— Jag­mo­han Singh (@thewsned­i­tor) March 24, 2020

Spare a thought for the po­lice, the me­dia who are work­ing day and night to save peo­ple across the world.

He com­forted the peo­ple of the coun­try that all ef­forts are be­ing made to en­sure the sup­ply of es­sen­tial com­modi­ties.

#StaySafe #StaySafe #Coro­n­avirus­Lock­down pic.twit­ter.com/​9n­rN­m6m­MU0

— The World Sikh News (@World­SikhNews1) March 24, 2020

A spe­cial fund of Rs. 15000 crores has been cre­ated by In­dia to fight Coro­n­avirus. He ap­pealed to peo­ple not to self-med­icate and de­sist from falling prey to ru­mours.

“Please ac­cept these cur­tail­ments of your free­dom of move­ment in the hope that we will win this war against this deadly virus,” Naren­dra Modi con­cluded.