Coronavirus live updates: A fresh case reported in Visakhapatnam, tally reaches to 12 in AP

Rs 15,000 crore allotted for Coronavirus testing facilities, PPEs, ICUs, Ventilators and training medical workers: PM Modi

 It is a time for patience and discipline. As long as there is a lockdown in the country, we have to keep our resolve, we have to keep our word. This is very important says PM Modi

If we are not able to manage the upcoming 21 days, we will be pushed back 21 years: PM Modi

Modi urges everyone to be compassionate

Modi said that every citizen should be compassionate and grateful for those in essential services like doctors and nurses and police, and even the media and hygiene workers who are sanitising public areas.  

"I urge you to forget the outside world for these 21 days. Forget every work except the work of staying at home. With this order, we have drawn a 'lakshan rekha' around your house from now onwards," Modi said, 

Stay at home because an infected person may not always show symptoms: PM Modi 

Atleast 21 days lockdown is needed to break the chain says PM Modi

Lockdown will have economic cost but will save lives: Modi

"Certainly, the country will have to bear the economic cost of this lockdown. But every government's priority is to save the life of every Indian at this time," PM Modi said. 

Announcing a nationwide lockdown PM Modi said, "From midnight, entire India will go under lockdown. This is like a curfew...this is more advanced than Janta Curfew...it is stricter than Janta Curfew." 

Watch PM Narendra Modi addressing the Nation on Coronavirus