President praises people's unmatched resolve

Resilience of nation shines through in Covid times says Kovind in address on the eve of Republic Day.

New Delhi: Noting that COVID-19 has been an extraordinary challenge to humankind, President Ram Nath Kovind said on Tuesday that tackling the pandemic was bound to be more difficult in India due to high population density and limitation of resources in a developing economy but people have “shown an unmatched resolve” against the coronavirus. In his address on the eve of 73rd Re publ i c D a y, the President said the world has never been in so much need of help as now.

He said it has been over two years now and humankind is still battling with the coronavirus, hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost and the world economy has been reeling under the impact.

The President said the world has suffered from unprecedented misery, and surge after surge of new variants have been posing new crises.

“It has been an extraordinary challenge to humankind. The pandemic management was bound to be all the more difficult in India. We have a high population density, and as a developing economy, we did not have the level of resources and infrastructure needed to battle this invisible enemy. But it is only in such difficult times that the resilience of a nation shines forth,” he said.