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orona was out of control in villages. We — me and my ministers — then visited the villages and rural areas where we
encountered more stories, as to how bodies were floating in rivers, and other such things. Even when the
communities that live alongside the river explained that burying bodies and immersing the dead in the river is a
tradition for them, no one was ready to talk about it. We need to highlight the difference — this is a pandemic, you
cannot compare it to the simple flu. It’s a country’s fight, we should only have positive thoughts and abstain from
spreading negativity and false information. But many individuals and institutions have used this time to spread
negativity and they have weakened this fight against the pandemic. You must have seen the new delta variant, which is
highly infectious, the whole world is grappling with it now. Even there, why is the variant not being controlled? Those
countries had organised vaccination drives on a huge scale. No one is discussing this topic today. Why is there no
reportage on the same from the media? There are constant efforts to tarnish the image of the country, we should have
stopped these efforts, and strengthened the fight of the country. We should have fought under the leadership of our
PM, and kept the fight against corona going. This should have been our national religion, to participate in this fight.
But many people have only spread negativity and have undertaken that as a mission for themselves. They wanted to
spread panic regarding the corona situation. Many specialists had declared that UP would have a disaster on its
hands especially during May and June. Today, it’s 23 June and we only have 208 active positive cases in the state.
Today, the district of Mahoba is entirely Covid-free. Today at least 12 districts in the state have zero positive cases.
In 52 districts, positive cases are in single digits. In the state, we have one or two districts where the cases are in
double digits. And this is the s

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