 I'm Dr. Hemant Kalyan. Everywhere we look, we see COVID-19, 10 million plus cases worldwide, 500,000 deaths, 1,000 plus cases in Bangalore. The very word COVID-19 is sufficient to send a chill down your spine for many people. What if I get COVID-19? What if my family member gets COVID-19? What if my neighbor gets COVID-19? Should we do this? Should we do that? Shall we, as a community, stop the entry of everybody coming in? Shall we stop getting out of the house? No more groceries. Close this. Close that. The watchword neighbors and friends is do not panic. The first thing in the war against COVID-19 is to know your enemy. Please remember that COVID-19 is not a nuclear bomb which is going to annihilate the entire city in one go. It's a submicroscopic particle, a virus, which gets transmitted from one person to another person one at a time. Remember that coronavirus is here to stay and we need to deal with it with an approach which is sensible, scientific and sustainable. We know from the worldwide experience and from our city experience that lockdowns and stringent restrictions are not sustainable and that's not a cure for COVID-19. What we need to know is to be empowered how to deal with this situation and for this the watchword is sms s for social distancing m for the use of mask and s for sanitization of your hands simple hand washing and these three simple low cost measures which are very easy for everyone to follow at an individual level and at a community level will make your risk of getting COVID-19 very, very low. Let us take the worst case scenario and that in spite of all the precautions you or your family member or your neighbor does get COVID-19 my dear residents or windmills even if you do this is not the end of the world remember in this situation knowledge is power and as a aware and educated community we need to be sensible scientific safe and sustainable to help us achieve this goal together the COVID advisory board of windmills has requested me to produce if you like or want of a better word a series of information videos on this subject all I can say is that even if you do get COVID-19 most of you will recover uneventfully just like you would recover from a flu some of you or some of us may get a more severe infection which may require hospitalization as a community we've been extremely proactive right from the beginning of the lockdown and we need to continue to be a model community for the rest of the city and the rest of the country with a sensible sustainable approach so I think if we are empowered with knowledge together we can overcome so the panic should be removed from our vocabulary do not panic if we stay calm and take care most likely we'll be safe from it in any case