Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be addressing the nation at 5 pm on Monday, June 7. In a tweet, the PMO announced that PM Modi will speak at 5 pm.
In its tweet, PMO India wrote, "Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi will address the nation at 5 PM today, 7th June."
PM Modi's address to the nation on Monday comes at a time when the country recorded its lowest coronavirus cases in two months with 1 lakh fresh cases.
The daily Covid-19 death toll has also come down while the number of active cases in the country has decreased to 14 lakh.
On Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Indian scientists for developing a Made in India vaccine against Covid-19 and boosting measures to fight the pandemic within a year of its outbreak.
Addressing a meeting of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Society via video conference, PM Modi, who is also the president of the scientific body, cited India's experience in the previous century to say that the country used to wait for years to lay its hands on innovations achieved abroad, but its scientists are now working shoulder to shoulder with their counterparts outside.
PM Modi last addressed the nation on April 20, when cases were spiking. He had said that the second wave of the coronavirus had hit India like a storm and appealed to states to use lockdowns only as the last resort. "In a situation like today, we have to save the country from a lockdown. If you all work together, create awareness then there is no need for containment, never mind a lockdown. I appeal to states that they should use the lockdown as the last resort – our focus should be micro-containment zones. We will take care of economic health as well as the health of countrymen," the Prime Minister had said.