Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Growing awareness about covid-19-appropriate behaviour has aided in curbing the spread of the infection, besides timely treatment, the government said. “Now, we are certainly seeing a downward trend in the total number of new cases from about 100,000 per day to 70,000 per day, and even the fatalities have come down from close to a 1,000 per day to about 700 a day," said H.
Sudarshan Ballal, head of states’ covid expert panel of the central government.However, public health experts said the Centre’s decision to open up the economy further is likely to make it more challenging to control the pandemic.Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday directed the health ministry to scale up serological surveys and testing for covid.