Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India has “tried to walk the talk” with its limited resources while tackling the coronav...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that India has “tried to walk the talk” with its limited resources while tackling the coronavirus pandemic. The prime minister made the comments during the inauguration of the sixth edition of the Raisina Dialogue, the global conference on geopolitics and geoeconomics.
“We have tried to protect our own 1.3 billion citizens from the pandemic,” Modi said, during the virtual address. “In our neighborhood, we have encouraged our coordinated regional response to the crisis. Last year, we shared medicines and protective equipment with over 150 countries.”
Modi said that “despite many constraints” India has sent Covid-19 vaccines to more than 80 countries, adding that the “supplies have been modest” in comparison to the demands. The pandemic also provided the opportunity to reshape the world order and “reorient our thinking”, he added.
The prime minister also questioned the reason for the outbreak of the coronavirus. “For over a year now, the best minds of our societies have been engaged in battling this pandemic,” he said. “All the governments of the world at all levels are trying to contain and control this pandemic. Why did it come to this? Is it perhaps because in the race of economic development the concern for welfare...
