Narendra Modi at WEF's Davos LIVE Updates: Many More Covid Vaccines Will Soon Come From India, Says PM

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"In these tough times, India has been undertaking its global responsibility from the beginning. When airspace was closed in many countries, India took more than 1 lakh citizens to their countries and delivered essential medicines to more than 150 countries," he says.

"World Economic Forum will be relieved to know that in the time to come many more vaccines will come from India," says Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Davos Agenda.

"We now have two made-in-India vaccines. It will soon be available to the world. India's bit for self reliance will strengthen a new era of globalisation," the prime minister says.

"We showed the wold how ayurveda has helped in improving immunity," he says.

"In just 12 days, India has vaccinated more than 2.3 million healthcare workers. In next some months, we will achieve our target of vaccinating 300 million elderly people and people with comorbidities," PM Modi says.

"When the world had shut its airspace, we brought back lakhs of our citizens back to India," he says.

"We not only produced kits to fight COVID-19 but we have also helped other countries. We are in the process of vaccinating 30 crore health workers. Our next phase will see people with comorbidity getting vaccinated," says PM Modi.

"We are among the nations that have managed to save the most number of lives and we are on our way to significantly reduce the number of active cases," says PM Modi.

WATCH LIVE | Watch PM Narendra Modi's address at the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda.

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Beginning his address, Prime Minister Modi says, "I am here to bring you a message of hope and faith from a nation with 1.3 billion people. Many experts had predicted that India will be the worst COVID affected country in the world. They said that we will face 2 million deaths, but nothing like that happened."

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PM Modi to Address WEF's Davos Summit | Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the World Economic Forum's online Davos Agenda Summit via video conferencing today at 5.30 pm IST. His speech at the world forum will address a wide range of subjects, including India's reform trajectory and increased usage of technology. The prime minister will also be interacting with CEOs during the event.

Will be addressing the @wef’s #DavosAgenda at 5:30 PM tomorrow, 28th January. Looking forward to speaking on a wide range subjects relating to India’s reform trajectory, increased usage of technology and other issues.

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) January 27, 2021