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.
Rains may trigger a surge in diseases such as malaria, adding to the burden of an already strained healthcare system India may witness a double-disease burden amid the covid-19 outbreak as the monsoon may trigger a surge in vector-borne diseases, such as dengue, malaria and chikungunya, which will further strain the healthcare system.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in his meeting with chief ministers through videoconferencing on Sunday voiced his concerns. “With the onset of the monsoon, there will be a proliferation of non-covid-19 diseases, for which we must prepare and strengthen our medical and health systems." Activities such as distribution of insecticide-treated nets could be postponed till after the lockdown, and the use of