Describing the ongoing battle against COVID-19 pandemic as a “mother of all World Cups”, India head coach Ravi Shastri on Wednesday (April 15) urged the countrymen to follow the guidelines of the government in order to combat the spread of this deadly virus.
India was under lockdown from March 25 in an unprecedented measure in the fight against Coronavirus crisis. The lockdown was scheduled to end on April 14 but to flatten the curve of growing COVID-19 cases in the country, PM Modi decided to extend it till May 3.
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Taking to Twitter, Shastri uploaded a video and said: “Today the COVID-19 has put us in a situation where we got our backs to the wall.”
“To combat this coronavirus is like chasing a World Cup where you give your everything in trying to win it. What’s staring you at the face is no ordinary World Cup. This is the mother of all World Cups where not just eleven are playing but 1.4 (1.3) billion are in the playing arena and competing.
“Guys we can win this. For that, we have to observe the basics. You have got your Prime Minister leading from the front ahead of the curve like other countries have farmed out,” he added.
Shastri said during the lockdown, people need to stay at home and maintain social distancing.
“You have to obey the orders that come from the top: be it Centre, state or the frontline workers who are risking their lives. It is not easy but to win the game you got to go through the pain to break the chain and see the gain.”
“Come on, guys! let’s do it together. Let us get out there in a bruit force of 1.4 billion (1.3 billion) and beat this coronavirus and get your hands on the World Cup of humanity. Let’s do it,” he concluded.
As of April 15, the COVID-19 cases in India has crossed 11,000 with 377 fatalities. Globally, the epidemic has claimed more than 126,700 lives and infected in excess of 2,000,200 people thus far.
