New Delhi: “Although our country is better equipped to deal with the viral infection than the rest of the world, we should not take the pandemic lightly,” said Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan.
“The national Covid-19 recovery rate has reached 76.28 per cent, while the mortality rate has come down to 1.82 per cent which was the lowest in the world,” he said.
He urged the leaders to make people in their area aware about the disease and motivate them to follow the government guidelines to stop the spread of the disease.
“I have full faith that if we all work unitedly, we under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, are going to succeed in the fight against coronavirus,” he added.
He said that the work to build 75 super speciality hospitals in the country was going on at a fast pace.