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Mahabharata won in 18 days, battle against coronavirus will take 21 days, says PM Modi

India's Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extolled yoga as a way of building a "protective shield" of immunity against the coronavirus, as his nation battles a surge in infections.

Modi, a keen yoga practitioner who has long espoused the benefits of the ancient Indian practice, gave the advice in a YouTube message ahead of International Yoga Day on Sunday.

"We all know that until now nowhere in the world have they been able to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 or coronavirus," Modi said in the video published on Thursday.

"Which is why right now, only a strong immunity can act as a protective shield or a bodyguard for us and our family members ... yoga is our trusted friend in building this protective shield [of immunity]."

The Indian leader, a teetotal vegetarian, set up a ministry to promote yoga, Ayurveda and other traditional Indian treatments when he came to power in 2014.

Modi initially proposed World Yoga Day to the United Nations, winning approval the same year. On June 21, 2015, the first International Yoga Day was observed across the world.

The day normally see masses of people gather for public yoga events not only in India but worldwide - but Modi called for people to this year "go indoors".

Modi also hailed yoga as a way to ease the extraordinary stresses people are enduring because of the virus.

"Yoga has the potential to cater to the mental, physical and psychological challenges. It puts to test how one can live in challenging times," he said.

In January, the Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa Rigpa and Homoeopathy) released an advisory on how ancient homeopathy and Ayurveda remedies could help Indians combat the coronavirus.

But organisations including the United States's National Institutes of Health, have warned that "no scientific evidence that any of these alternative remedies can prevent or cure COVID-19".

India's national and state governments have also stressed the importance of mask-wearing and social distancing.

The South Asian nation of 1.3 billion people is the fourth worst-hit country in the world with more than 380,000 virus infections and over 12,000 deaths, official figures show.


SOURCE: AFP NEWS AGENCY
 
Modi: Practice yoga to fight coronavirus

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the world to use yoga to battle the coronavirus pandemic that has claimed the lives of 460,299 people and infected more than 8.5 million, Reuters news agency reported.

"If our immunity is strong then it helps in fighting against the disease. There are many yoga practices that boost our immunity," Modi said during a televised address on the occasion of International Day of Yoga.

Modi appealed people to perform 'Pranayam', a breathing exercise, to strengthen their respiratory system. COVID-19 is a respiratory infection that in severe cases causes shortness of breath and lung failure.

India saw an increase of 14,516 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the health ministry said, taking the total to 395,047 with 12,948 deaths.
 
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How many days has it been now?

The illiteracy of this creature boggles mind and even better, he is still being deified by so many.
 
Syed1 said:
Practice yoga to fight coronavirus :)))
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Yoga may not be a cure but it definitely is a healthy activity to improve immune system. Any doctor would tell you to get some exercise or do some yoga.
 
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Local.Dada said:
Yoga may not be a cure but it definitely is a healthy activity to improve immune system. Any doctor would tell you to get some exercise or do some yoga.
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You only came here to defend your master, had this thread been only on Yoga you probably wouldn't have bothered to even open it.

Ikkis din puray hou gaye hain? ya Modi key ayyam kissi aur pattern key mutabiq chaltey hain?
 
IAJ said:
You only came here to defend your master, had this thread been only on Yoga you probably wouldn't have bothered to even open it.

Ikkis din puray hou gaye hain? ya Modi key ayyam kissi aur pattern key mutabiq chaltey hain?
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Don't count cloudy days. Clouds can deceive Radars and Solar Calendar.
 
Local.Dada said:
Yoga may not be a cure but it definitely is a healthy activity to improve immune system. Any doctor would tell you to get some exercise or do some yoga.
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So is walking, any type of exercise will boost the immune system. Even sleeping boots the immune.

You're missing the elephant in the room again, Modi used Yoga instead of saying exercise because he is too caught up in his Hindutva extremism and will look for 18 day historic battles or anything which may bring his ideology as positive/helpful.
 
I don't think even PM Modi expected this.

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India coronavirus cases rise by 34,884 to 1,038,716

A surge of 34,884 new coronavirus cases took India's tally to 1,038,716, as local governments continue to reimpose focused lockdowns in several parts of the country.

The Health Ministry on Saturday also reported 671 deaths in the past 24 hours for a total of 26,273. The ministry said the recovery rate had slightly come down to 62.9 percent.

About a dozen states, including Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Assam, have put high-risk areas under lockdowns, only allowing essential food supplies and health services.

Rahul Gandhi, leader of the main opposition Congress party, urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday to take concrete steps to contain the pandemic. He warned that the number of infections will double to 2 million by August 10 at the current pace.

Experts say India is likely to witness a series of peaks as the infection spread in rural areas.
 
It's a familiar sight at Nigambodh Ghat, Delhi's largest Hindu crematorium. A section of it carved out just for COVID-19-related deaths.

Hurried last rites performed on a 65-year-old man who succumbed to the virus this morning.

His loved ones have to bid a distant and hurried farewell - everyone deprived of a traditional ritual.

Sunita tells Sky News: "He died so soon, one of the biggest hospitals with all its modern equipment could not save him. My brother should not have died. This disease has torn our family."

The virus has so far consumed close to 35,000 lives across the country. With over 1.5 million cases, India is the third worst-affected country after the US and Brazil.

Over the last few days, almost 50,000 positive cases are registered daily.

The government is always keen to point out the fatality rate of 2.23% is one of the lowest in the world.

That may be true, but coronavirus-related deaths are slowly but surely increasing, with no signs of it letting up.

In India, the state of Maharashtra with its capital Mumbai has been the epicentre of the virus.

It has had more than 400,000 positive COVID-19 cases, causing 14,165 deaths - three times more than the whole of China.

Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, had been the epicentre of the virus.

With more than 700,000 people living in 2.5 square kilometres, it is one of the most densely populated habitats in the world.

The slum has now made a turn around for the better but still remains a great concern for the government.

Earlier this month, World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus praised the successful efforts at containment of the pandemic.

He said: "Even in Dharavi - a densely packed area in the mega city of Mumbai - a strong focus on community engagement and the basics of testing, tracing, isolating and treating all those that are sick is key to breaking the chains of transmission and suppressing the virus."

According to a survey jointly conducted by Mumbai's municipality and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, about 57% of slum-dwellers have tested positive for antibodies for the coronavirus.

Dr Kamakshi Bhate, professor emeritus of community medicine at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial Hospital, said: "Sero-conversion (the presence of antibodies in the blood) means you have protective antibodies.

"These are the people who are becoming a wall and protecting others against transmission."

More than half of Mumbai's population live in slums, their homes small and airless and making it easy for the contagion.

Social distancing, personal protection and hygienic living conditions are a privilege most cannot afford.

With this state accounting for almost a third of the country's death toll, its hospitals have been overwhelmed.

Bada Qabristan, a Muslim organisation, are lending a helping hand. Putting themselves at risk, they are conducting last rites for abandoned bodies and for those families too scared to conduct rituals.

Iqbal Madani, a member, told Sky News: "While we looked for Muslim bodies in mortuaries we found unclaimed bodies of our non-Muslim brothers and sisters.

"Families just too scared, some were in quarantine and unable while some so fearful they will contract the virus if they touched the bodies - so they stopped claiming them."

What started out as a 20-member team has grown ten-fold.

They come from all walks of life and spend their own money and time to pick up bodies from dozens of mortuaries across the city. They have performed last rites for more than 800 bodies in Mumbai.

"Be it of any religion, we want to give the person some dignity in death, we want nothing but prayers," said Iqbal.

Speaking at a virtual programme to mark the opening of COVID-19 testing facilities, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: "India is in a much better position than other countries in the fight against the pandemic due to the right decisions taken at the right time.

"The world is praising us because of the efforts of the foot soldiers. Our country has come to a point where it does not lack in awareness."

The Indian government spends just over 1.2% of its GDP on public health care. This has been going on for decades under successive governments, resulting in inadequate health care for the masses.

More than 70% of Indians go to private care, as public health infrastructure is creaking and in many places non-existent.

At the main district hospital of Chapra in Bihar, one of the poorest states has telling signs of government apathy.

Ward after ward is bereft of basic medical equipment, though filth and squalor can be found in abundance.

Betel nut spittle lines the walls, doors and corners of the hospital. Used syringes, medical tubes and empty bottles are strewn all around.

There are no signs of doctors or any nursing staff as patients are left on their own.

Rupesh Kumar came in with breathing problems and was attached to a device which would help him breathe easier - but that doesn't work. He's been waiting a while for assistance.

"It's just too dirty here, no bed sheet either, I can get more sick here," he tells Sky News.

The hospital has a coronavirus isolation ward attached to it.

Used PPE and bio-medical waste lie discarded in the open at one end of the hospital grounds. Pigs roam the hospital complex scavenging on it.

The pandemic has also breached the rural parts of the country, with positive cases reported in small towns and villages.

Migrants affected by months of severe lockdown have returned and could have inadvertently carried the virus to all corners of the country - a big concern for the government.

India's struggling public health structure would be no match for a severe pandemic and would collapse, ravaging its people.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...hy-hospitals-where-pigs-roam-grounds-12039030
 
More people have probably been killed on India coz of covid 19 then in Mahabharat. It is still going strong in India.
 
https://indianexpress.com/article/i...s&utm_campaign=PM Modi&utm_content=&utm_term=

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wondered whether it would have been possible to impose lockdown in the country had the coronavirus hit before 2014.

Speaking at the inauguration of Rashtriya Swachhta Kendra, an interactive experience centre on Swachh Bharat Mission, in Delhi, PM Modi said, “Imagine what would have happened had pandemic like Coronavirus broken out before 2014. Given the lack of toilets (in houses across rural India), could we have stopped the spread of virus? Could we have imposed lockdown in a situation where over 60% population was forced to open defecation?”
 
This creature is truly a bigot, looking to
do his gutter level politics even when he has bungled so badly on this front even by his pathetic standards of governance. Period.
 
MP2011 said:
https://indianexpress.com/article/i...s&utm_campaign=PM Modi&utm_content=&utm_term=

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday wondered whether it would have been possible to impose lockdown in the country had the coronavirus hit before 2014.

Speaking at the inauguration of Rashtriya Swachhta Kendra, an interactive experience centre on Swachh Bharat Mission, in Delhi, PM Modi said, “Imagine what would have happened had pandemic like Coronavirus broken out before 2014. Given the lack of toilets (in houses across rural India), could we have stopped the spread of virus? Could we have imposed lockdown in a situation where over 60% population was forced to open defecation?”
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Rightly said. Manmohan Singh didn't command any respect and couldn't have provided the leadership needed in such a time.
 
India sets world's highest single-day rise

India's health ministry announced on Sunday at least 78,761 new infections in 24 hours, setting a new daily record worlwide.

With a population of more than 1.3 billion people, India ranks third with the most number of infections, behind the US and Brazil.

The United States previously recorded 77,638 daily cases in one day, according to the AFP news agency.
 
globalcitizen said:
21 days will be based on mathematical models and. simulations that Indian scientists would have predicted
Some of factors that would have been considered is size, population, age, life style, health, economy etc..
At this point don’t think india can explain this to all its citizens in such a crisis.
It’s not some random number of days, but what they feel as an ideal number to combat this virus.
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21 days... mathematical models and simulation...
 
Lol, this guy, man. He is as bad as mullas in Pakistan. It’s like they put Hindu version of Khadim Hussein Rizvi in office.

I’m guessing his 21 days aren’t over yet.
 
New Delhi: The surge in COVID-19 cases has led to a sharp increase in the demand for oxygen in different parts of the country. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged there was an oxygen crisis in the country and said work to increase its production is taking place at several levels.

Reacting to the pan-India shortage of medical-grade oxygen, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in an interview with ANI said India’s production capacity for oxygen is one of the largest in the world and asked why there is a shortage?

“You had 8-9 months between first and second wave. Your own Serosurveys indicated that a second wave is imminent but you ignored it,” she added.

'Oxygen is available but it's not reaching where it should'

She further said that today, only 2000 trucks in India can transport oxygen and said it was tragic that oxygen is available but it's not reaching where it should.

She also slammed the Centre for exporting 1.1 million Remdesivir injections in the last 6 months and said that India was facing a shortage due to such decisions by the Centre.

“Vaccine shortage is due to bad planning, Remdesivir shortage due to no planning, oxygen shortage due to no strategy. It's government’s failure,” she said.

https://www.timesnownews.com/india/...tegy-by-modi-govt-says-priyanka-gandhi/747665
 
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Modi & his far right nationalists religious party is to blame for the scary state of India today!

He told the people to be a little patient & this would go away, bang pots & pans, light candles and other delusional gestures.

His friends were attacking some Muslims for gathering but they are now mute on the Hindu festival which saw a much larger gathering.

My thoughts are with all Indians, we are humans and in such times we should pray for them and wish them health.

But they need to wake up and get rid of crazy fundamentalits who have taken over their country.
 
The only good thing that can come out of this is that the people at large can see Modi, Shah, Adityanath etc. for what they are.
 
KingKhanWC said:
Modi & his far right nationalists religious party is to blame for the scary state of India today!

He told the people to be a little patient & this would go away, bang pots & pans, light candles and other delusional gestures.

His friends were attacking some Muslims for gathering but they are now mute on the Hindu festival which saw a much larger gathering.

My thoughts are with all Indians, we are humans and in such times we should pray for them and wish them health.

But they need to wake up and get rid of crazy fundamentalits who have taken over their country.
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The bottom line is also applicable to TLP and Pakistan.
 
Modi should provide his people with oxygen instead of making ignorant statements everyday. People are begging for help on the streets, hospitals are full unable to take more patients and he's talking of Mahabharat!! If a Sonia Gandhi criticised him he's start telling her an Italian Catholic has no right to speak!
 
People were dying on the pavement outside one of the biggest hospitals in the Indian capital, Delhi, as doctors struggled to cope with the country's dwindling supplies of oxygen amid a massive second surge in coronavirus cases.

India is now the world's fastest-growing coronavirus crisis and for the second day running it set a record no country wants: the highest global number of daily COVID-19 cases.

The emergency room of the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in the capital was crammed full of sick, dying and dead people.

Patients have had to wait outside hospitals for treatments.

The medics were quickly wheeling the dead out on trolleys even as people gasping for breath were dying outside before they could even be seen by doctors.

There were distraught relatives sobbing and hugging each other every which way you looked.

Several patients were linked up to oxygen cylinders in the parking area in front of the building.

Several had blankets pulled over them and were left to bake in the thirty degree-plus heat.

There's not enough time to spend on those still living, albeit barely, so even less time for those who've passed away.

Here, where deaths are coming so suddenly and so frequently, the relatives are being forced to mourn swiftly too - and there's little dignity for anyone involved in this grim and traumatic process.

The residents of east Delhi have been building mass funeral pyres in makeshift crematoriums.

A drone shot showed dozens and dozens of burning fires, each one of them someone's father, mother, parent, child - their deaths so abrupt during this massive second wave, there's no time to wait for vacancies at the official sites.

We saw two brothers weeping as the sibling they'd brought to the hospital hours earlier lay on the tarmac outside, his eyes half open and glazed over.

The brothers had battled hard to get an oxygen mask but minutes after attaching it, the older sibling had breathed his last.

"He waited for six hours for oxygen," Sukan told Sky News.

"Six hours! But died minutes after getting it.'

There's very little you can say to a family wracked by grief with their loved ones' body laying spread out on a hard tarmac behind them.

They were devastated - like so many families here.

"I have a message for the government," 23-year-old Tushar Maurya said.

"Please release some oxygen…people need it here.

"People need beds, people need wards, people need injections, people need medicines."

The emergency room where the doctors and nurses assess who should remain in the hospital was full to bursting.

All the hospital beds for covid patients have filled anyway.

We saw one family trying to bundle their mother out of their car and onto a hospital gurney only to realise she's died as they were trying to get her the urgent medical help she needed.

"This hospital is useless," her daughter shrieked, jostling her dead mother in frustration.

But India is in the grip of a terrible medical crisis and this hospital is not an isolated case.

Doctors across the country have been reduced to begging for help on social media warning of desperately low oxygen supplies.

The government has been heavily criticised for not taking the prospect of a second wave a lot more seriously especially given what was happening to other countries ahead of them in the cycle.

Instead, the authorities acted like the pandemic was over after lifting a particularly strict first lockdown.

Several political rallies went ahead in the past few weeks as well as the hugely popular Kumbh Mela religious festival which is held every 12 years and attracts an estimated 10 million devotees.

It was switched from its original date next year to this year during a global pandemic because the dates were said to be more auspicious.

It looks like India and her people are paying a very heavy price for some of their government's decisions.

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19...es-indias-healthcare-system-to-limit-12285080
 
The sooner people would realize that modi is a con artist, the better it would be. Let’s stop believing his pathetic agenda and ideas and take care of yourself and your family. Modi is not going to shed a tear if someone in your family passes away due to his nationalist agenda that leads to covid surge. So be safe everyone in India, keep your family safe, it always comes first.
 
He's the hindu version of the late Mullah Omar of Afghanistan. I don't hold that against him, just surprised he has so many educated Indian followers around the world. He has one or two in Pakistan as well, specifically those who despise Imran Khan.
 
ahmedzee said:
The sooner people would realize that modi is a con artist, the better it would be. Let’s stop believing his pathetic agenda and ideas and take care of yourself and your family. Modi is not going to shed a tear if someone in your family passes away due to his nationalist agenda that leads to covid surge. So be safe everyone in India, keep your family safe, it always comes first.
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If even after lakhs of deaths, they didn't budge from their devotion towards their supreme leader. What gives you hope that they'll finally see the light?
 
MP2011 said:
If even after lakhs of deaths, they didn't budge from their devotion towards their supreme leader. What gives you hope that they'll finally see the light?
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You are one of the few people who get it. Although you don't know why, but you know that Modi's popularity is not affected by all this.
 
CricketCartoons said:
You are one of the few people who get it. Although you don't know why, but you know that Modi's popularity is not affected by all this.
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I am sure most of the dead themselves would vote for Modi if given a chance in afterlife. And these people in power are downright certain that no matter what happens they will prevail for a long time.

We are expressing our frustrations here afterall not everyone is a bakth. And no, i don’t believe we can either convince or convert these hardliners with logic.
 
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