PM Modi to participate in NAM's virtual summit, discussion on fight with Corona

Posted on 4th May 2020 by rohit kumar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Virtual Summit of Nonline Movement (NAM) to discuss ways to fight the corona virus epidemic. The report says that the meeting will take place at around 4.30 pm Indian time and will also include External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. This will be the first time Modi will attend the NAM meeting since becoming Prime Minister in 2014. Modi is the first full-time Indian Prime Minister not to attend the NAM summit in 2016 and again in 2019. The last two summits were India represented by the Vice President in Venezuela in 2016 and Azerbaijan in 2019. Manmohan Singh attended the NAM meeting in 2012 in Tehran. Azerbaijan remained the chairman of the grouping until 2022 and a meeting is being held under the leadership of its president, Ilham Aliyev.

 

 

Other blocks such as the G20, BRICS and regional conglomerates such as SAARC have also held video conferences to discuss a coordinated approach to combat corona virus disease. Corona has affected more than 3.5 million people worldwide and killed 274,431 people. NAM is an organization representing the largest group of countries other than the United Nations and within it 120 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America.

 

 

Due to Corona, the condition of India is poor. The third phase of lockdown has started here. A record 83 deaths were recorded during the last 24 hours in the country. Meanwhile, 2487 new cases of infection were also reported, due to which the number of infected in the country crossed 40 thousand. According to the data released by the Union Health Ministry on Sunday evening, the number of infected in the country has reached 40,263. The death toll has risen to 1306. The number of healthy people has also increased. A total of 10,887 people have become healthy so far. The percentage of healthy people is more than 26 percent. A total of 28,070 patients are being treated in various hospitals of the country. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Delhi are the states most affected by the infection.

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