Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a video conference with senior ministers today to assess the Covid-19 situation in the country, as well as the vaccination campaign amid an increase in active cases that has increased the government concern. PM Modi’s last interaction with the chief ministers was in January before the launch of the vaccination. He had announced that the Center will bear the vaccination costs of nearly three crore of frontline and healthcare workers in the first round and suggested that public representatives, a reference to politicians, should not be part of this initial exercise.
The announcement comes in the context of states such as Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu that continue to report an increase in daily Covid-19 cases, accounting for 78.41 percent of new cases, the ministry said. of Health of the Union. Fifteen of the 19 districts in India with the highest number of coronavirus cases in the past ten days are in Maharashtra, which is dealing with an alarming increase in Covid cases. The state is “at the beginning of a second wave of Covid,” the Center told the Uddhav Thackeray-led government. According to government data, there have been almost 1,000 new cases every day for the past ten days in Pune, Nagpur and Mumbai. Nagpur, which is closed for a week from Monday, has seen 20,104 cases in the past ten days, compared to 26,218 in Pune and 11,859 in Mumbai at the same time.
The 19 districts with the highest number of coronavirus cases are Pune with 26,218 cases; Nagpur with 20,104; Mumbai with 11,859; Thane with 10,914; Nashik with 9,024; Aurangabad with 6,652; Jalgaon with 6,598; Indore with 5,238; Bengaluru Urban with 5,047; Amravati with 4,250; Ahmednagar with 3,962; Chennai with 3,811; Mumbai Suburban with 3,355; Yavatmal with 3,326; Akola with 3,299; Buldhana with 3,185; Nanded with 3,146; Wardha with 2,431; and Jalandhar with 2,424, according to a report by NDTV.
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