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Countries have come out of there boundaries and is helping India in it’s most times. Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama is also a great person to help Indians through finding. On Tuesday it was announced that Dalai Lama will make a contribution to the PM-CARES Fund to strengthen India’s fight against the “alarming COVID-19 surge”.
In a statement he said "I have been following the continuing challenge that the Covid-19 pandemic has been posing across the world, including in India, with concern.” Further he added "At this critical time, during this alarming Covid-19 surge, I have asked the Dalai Lama Trust to make a donation to the PM-CARES Fund as a token of our solidarity with fellow Indian brothers and sisters.” He also deeply appreciated efforts made to tackle this devastating pandemic, especially by those courageously working on the frontline workers. He prayed that this pandemic threat on India to end soon. The Central government of India had set up the Prime Minister's Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) Fund in March 2020. It aimed to deal with any kind of emergency situation like the one currently posed by the COVID-19 outbreak and provide relief to those affected. Now in the view of current situation the spiritual leader, Dalai Lama is going to contribute in PM CARES Fund.
With testing positive for coronavirus infection in a day, India's total tally of COVID-19 cases has climbed to 1,76,36,307, while the national recovery rate has further dropped to 82.54 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday.
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