Odisha: With Odisha recording two positive cases of COVID-19 - a global pandemic - till March 23, a young woman IPS officer serving in the eastern Indian state has recorded a song meant to spread awareness among the general public about the deadly disease and the ways to fight it.
"It is very important to make people aware of coronavirus, and it is much easier to reach out to the general public through music," Sara Sharma, Superintendant of Police of the southern Gajapati district, told ETV Bharat.
This is not the first time that Sharma has taken to the recording studio. Sharma, a trained vocalist in Hindustani classical music, composed and recorded a song last year to motivate women to confront eve-teasers without being scared.
The Odia song, ‘Narira surakhya pain neichhu pana’ (we have vowed to keep women protected), soon caught up with the women of the state and became a rage on social media after it was formally released by Gajapati police at the district headquarters town of Paralakhemundi.
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Meanwhile, the Odisha government has put eight of the state's towns and five districts including Cuttack, and capital Bhubaneshwar in order to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.
These districts include Khurda, Ganjam, Cuttack, Angul and Kendrapada, Sambalpur, Jharsuguda, Balasore, Bhadrak, Puri, Jajpur Road, Jajpur Town, and Rourkela.
These 13 places will be in lockdown from 7 am of March 22 to 9 pm on March 29.
