Deepika Padukone gives WHO's #SafeHandsChallenge to Virat Kohli, Roger Federer, Cristiano Ronaldo amid COVID-19 pandemic
Coronavirus is spreading rapidly across the globe, doctors are busy dropping preventive measures at their social media handle in a wake to spread awareness among the people out there. Recently, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organisation nominated Bollywood beauty Deepika Padukone to take up WHO’s #SafeHandChanllenge. The 83 actress immediately reacted and took up the challenge and also further carried the baton to nominate more celebs.
Taking to Twitter, Deepika dropped a video wherein she can be seen wearing a mask and guiding the viewers as to how to wash the hands. While posting the video she thanked Dr Tedros and wrote, “!#COVID19 surely is an uphill health and public safety task, but all of us are in this fight together!” She further nominated 3 sports celebs Roger Federer, Virat Kohli and Christian Ronaldo to take up the challenge.
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Check out the video:
Thank You @DrTedros, for nominating me for the #SafeHands Challenge!#COVID19 surely is an uphill health and public safety task, but all of us are in this fight together!I further nominate @rogerfederer,@Cristiano and @imVkohli to take up this challenge! #coronavirus #StaySafe https://t.co/45glSxXkqP pic.twitter.com/7s7R4pIrrL
— Deepika Padukone (@deepikapadukone) March 17, 2020
Meanwhile, those who came in late then let us tell you that WHO introduced a new global campaign named Safe Hands to aware people. So far, 198,737 have been infected while 7,989 have died to due to the virus. In India 147 confirmed cases with 3 deaths have been reported a with this it raises the risk for the citizens.
First published: 18 March 2020, 12:43 IST