PM Modi to address nation at 6 PM today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the nation at 6 PM on Tuesday. He took to microblogging website Twitter to make the announcement.

"Will be sharing a message with my fellow citizens at 6 PM this evening," he wrote on Twitter.

आज शाम 6 बजे राष्ट्र के नाम संदेश दूंगा। आप जरूर जुड़ें।

Will be sharing a message with my fellow citizens at 6 PM this evening.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 20, 2020

The announcement comes a day after PM Modi said that India has one of the highest recovery rates--88%--because it was one of the first countries to adopt a flexible lockdown.

He was addressing the function of Grand Challenges Annual Meeting 2020 via video conferencing.

The Prime Minister said, "India's size, scale and diversity have always made the global community curious. Our population is almost four times that of the USA. Many of our states are as populated as other nations in Europe and Asia. Thanks to people power and people-driven approach, India kept its COVID-19 death rate very low."

"Today we are seeing a decline in the number of cases per day and in the growth rate of cases. India has one of the highest recovery rates--88%. This happened because India was one of the first countries to adopt a flexible lockdown when the total cases were just a few hundred," Modi said.

The Prime Minister said India was one of the first to encourage the use of masks. India actively began to work on effective contact tracing.