Points repeatedly highlighted yesterday need to be headlined. All must work *together* now, address urgent, immediate, needs. This is vital. Reduce, crush pandemic by following *appropriate behaviour now* rigorously everywhere. The virus spreads through us. We must, can stop it.

2/n Repeat: This a time for us to all work together and ensure that we, India and the world, get out of this pandemic. Analysing the past and predicting the future are useful. But, we should also not get our eyes off the task at hand.

3/n The first and most immediate task is doing everything we can now, together. Must continue to strengthen all—healthcare workers, frontline workers, patients, and their families, those ensuring supply chains function, etc.— and make sure we overcome this huge surge.

4/n Next, what we can and should do ourselves is simply stated maybe difficult to implement, but we must do it. The best time for us to change our behaviour is now. And we must do that.

5/n What we at every level need to do is to maximally and effectively maintain distance and follow COVID- appropriate behaviour. This critically important.

5/n Distancing can exponentially bring down spread, the virus can only go human to human. In each of our diverse contexts, we need to follow COVID-appropriate behaviour that is most effective. Otherwise, the virus will exponentially spread.

6/n No matter what the variant is or what its properties are; distancing will deprive it of a vehicle of passage. Distancing reduces the surge and relieves pressure on facilities.

7/n Vaccination is scaling up. Vaccines work. Vaccines work against variants. Meanwhile distancing and covid-appropriate behaviour are a must for all of us.