Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today give his first Mann Ki Baat radio address during the three-week shutdown necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic that has crippled several nations.
In a tweet on Saturday night, PM Modi said he will especially focus on the COVID-19 situation in today’s Mann Ki Baat.
“Tune in tomorrow at 11. Tomorrow’s episode will be focused on the situation prevailing due to COVID-19,” he tweeted.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tune in tomorrow at 11. <br><br>Tomorrow’s episode will be focused on the situation prevailing due to COVID-19. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MannKiBaat?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MannKiBaat</a> <a href="https://t.co/wWybvdLW8k">pic.twitter.com/wWybvdLW8k</a></p>— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href="https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1243956590761242624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
The country is under a full lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19, a disease spread by a novel coronavirus that was first detected at a seafood market in China’s Wuhan in December last year.