<span style="color: #222222;">Vice President  M Venkaiah Naidu today contributed a sum equivalent to a month's salary to the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund to strengthen the government's efforts in combating COVID-19 outbreak in the country.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">In a letter  to Prime Minister Modi, the Vice President described COVID-19 as a calamity of extremely severe nature which has claimed a heavy toll of life across the globe. He said that India is fighting the pandemic by taking timely and emergent measures from time to time under the leadership of Mr Modi.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Union Ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad and Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank have also donated their one month salaries to  the Fund.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />''