New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi likely to discuss coronavirus situation with top ministers from seven states on Sept. 23, news agency PTI reported citing sources. The meeting comes as most states in the country have witnessed an alarming increase in the number of Covid cases in recent weeks.
The main ministers of Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, among others, are expected to attend the meeting.
India, the second most affected country by the coronavirus in the world after the United States, has more than 53 lakh of cases, according to data from the Union Ministry of Health. About 60 percent of the country’s active coronavirus cases are concentrated in the five most affected states of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Uttar Pradesh.
The prime minister has been holding regular meetings to review the pandemic situation across the country with a focus on the states / UTs where the situation is most dire.
Their last COVID-19 review meeting was on August 11 with the chief ministers and representatives of the 10 most affected states, namely Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, Bihar, Gujarat, Telangana. and Uttar Pradesh.
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