Covid-19: PM Modi urges migrant workers to stay put, gives assurance of vaccination

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday appealed to the state governments to take migrant workers into confidence and assure them that they would soon be vaccinated against Covid-19. In a televised address to the nation on the prevailing health crisis, PM Modi said this assurance from the states will help the migrant workers a lot.

Urging the migrant workers to avoid returning to their home states in the middle of a pandemic, PM Modi said, "The assurance given by the state will help migrants believe that they will soon be vaccinated in the city where they are living and their livelihood will also not be affected."

PM Modi's address to the nation on Covid-19 comes at a time when India is seeing an exponential spike in its Covid-19 cases, while deaths too are increasing.