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India has fought the most successful battle against Covid in the world, says Amit Shah

Speaking after laying the foundation stone of a new battalion campus of the RAF in Karnataka's Bhadravathi, Shah said that's Indians fought the virus with unity.

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Bhadravathi: India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has fought the most successful battle against coronavirus in the world, and with the beginning of the vaccination drive, the country has taken the fight against the pandemic to a final stage,Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Saturday.

“The whole world for about a year has been fighting against corona, many people have lost lives.This was probably one of the toughest fights that humanity has fought, using knowledge, innovations and mutual cooperation,” Shah said.

Speaking after laying the foundation stone of a new battalion campus of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) here, he said he was happy to state that India under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership has fought the most successful battle against COVID-19 in the world.

Noting that during the initial days of the outbreak, some experts had expressed worry about a few countries, including India, on how they will manage with a huge population and not so prepared heath infrastructure, Shah said there was only lab in the country that could underake testing for the infection.

“Today we have more than 2,000,” he said.

The main difference in the fight that India fought against the virus compared to the rest of the world is that the entire population of the country fought it with unity, he said, as he claimed that India has less fatality rate and high recovery rate.

“Today with two vaccines produced in the country, we have taken the fight against corona to the final stage,” he said, even as he defended the decision to administer the vaccine to frontline warriors, and hit out those spreading misinformation on it.

Earlier, Shah laid the foundation stone of a new battalion campus of the Rapid Action Force (RAF) near Bhadravathi in Shivamogga district in the presence of Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa, Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, among others.

The Karnataka government has provided a 50.29-acre land for the headquarters of the 97th battalion of the RAF, the blue dungaree wearing special anti-riots wing of the Central Reserve Police Force.

The campus will have a hospital, a Kendriya Vidyalaya, family quarters for troops, administrative building, family welfare centre, sports facilities including a stadium and swimming pool.

A total of 1,270 troops of the newly raised 97th RAF battalion, including 106 women personnel, will be based here, officials said.

The battalion will have jurisdiction over a number of districts in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Goa and Puducherry for deployment by Centre to deal with any communal incidents, protests, riots or events that involve huge congregations, they said.

Shah thanked Yediyurappa for taking the initiative and giving the land for a new battalion campus of RAF that is coming up at a cost of Rs 230 crore.

He assured the people of Bhadravathi that the central school and the stadiums that will come up will be designed in such a way that local people can also use the facilities.


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1 COMMENT

  1. Amit Shah echoing of feku boast that India is world best manage in COVID crisis is making many nations ashamed.

    China, Taiwan, Nz, Singapore, Germany, Vietnam, etc. must have much to learn from India to improve themselves. Only US alone beat India in managing COVID.

    India has won global Top No.2 spot in infections by been world lowest test/million, further enhanced by testing once using cheap rapid test ( instead of twice PCR) that has 50% false negative rate.

    33% Delhi population is found to have COVID antibody by Sep2020. In Pune, its 85%. That means India infections has likely cross 400~800mils, beating US for the Top1 spot.

    Godi 4hrs lockdown was also a “master stroke” that see hundreds millions jobless migrants walking 1000s km back home.

    Godi also wanted to save the world with India’s vaccines. Covishield is licensed AstraZeneca vaccines, with only risk produced 50mils dose hardly enough for its 1400mils population. But India will kindly provide 20mils to neighbors, some as free aids. Another 10mils for export to save the world.

    Covaxin has no trial data for public review, as Bharat BioLab failed to recruit 25,000 volunteers for its Phase3 Trial. Even India Drs refuse to get inoculate by it, preferring Covishield-AstraZeneca. None want to be lab mice. But India will still hope to export.

    How wonderful for feku to save the world with Made In India vaccine without Trial data.

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