A mega effort by the armed forces to felicitate healthcare workers and other corona warriors is underway across the country, complete with flypasts by fighter jets over state capitals, aerial flower shower and performances by military bands outside hospitals. Besides Delhi, the Indian Air Force is carrying out fly-pasts in several other cities including Mumbai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Guwahati, Patna and Lucknow, Srinagar, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Coimbatore and Thiruvananthapuram, they said.Helicopters from the IAF and the Indian Navy are also flying over hospitals treating coronavirus patients and shower petals as a tribute to the corona warriors.
Military bands are also playing “patriotic tunes” outside various civil hospitals treating coronavirus patients across the country. Indian Naval Ship Jalashwa in Bay Of Bengal saluted coronawarriors by standing in a ‘Thank You’ formation. INS Jalashwa is one of the warships that will be used to evacuate Indian citizens from Gulf countries. An Indian Army band performed outside a Government Hospital in Panchkula to express their gratitude towards coronawarriors. On Sunday morning, the representative chiefs of Airforce, Navy and Army, i.e – CDS Bipin Rawat, COAS Manoj Mukund Naravane, Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria and Navy chief Admiral Karambir Singh paid their tribute to coronawarriors at National Police Memorial in Delhi. The flypast began on Sunday morning with IAF aircraft seen flying over the Dal Lake in Srinagar. After they took flight from Srinagar, the two the C-130J Super Hercules aircraft were photographed over Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh. Navy choppers showered flower petals on the Goa Medical College in Panaji to thank frontline workers for their efforts towards battling the novel coronavirus outbreak. The Indian Air Force’s Su-30 aircraft flew past Marine Drive in Mumbai on Sunday morning in honour of the frontline workers working day and night to contain the Covid-19 outbreak in the city. IAF choppers showered flowers over King George’s Medical University in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh as a tribute to frontline workers. IAF choppers flew past Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on Sunday morning as part of the armed forces’ show of gratitude towards frontline workers.
An IAF chopper showered flower petals over the Victoria Hospital in Bengaluru to honour the healthcare workers on the frontline in the fight against the novel coronavirus. An IAF chopper showered flower petals over AIIMS, RML hospital and LNJP hospital in New Delhi on Sunday. It’s really beautiful to see how the Modi Government and the entire country came together earlier to celebrate the efforts of frontline workers earlier by clapping for them and lighting diyas and candles. And now the the Modi government, Indian Army, Indian Airforce and Indian Navy come together to support all the doctors, nurses and frontline workers by showering petals and conducting flypasts and playing patriotic songs.
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