PM Modi to hold Covid review meeting immediately.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold a meeting at 8 pm tonight to review the COVID-19 and vaccination scenario in India. Top officers across various ministries will take part. This would be the third time when PM Modi can be chairing a meeting to review the Covid scenario because the nation goes by means of the second wave of coronavirus. Earlier, PM Modi had interplay with States Chief Ministers, Governors to hold a vigil on the pandemic scenario.
India is presently combating the second wave of coronavirus with day by day Covid instances clocking over 2 lakh. State after state is presently focussing on rising the variety of beds, medical oxygen, life-saving Remdesivir drug and vaccination of its residents.
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States together with Maharashtra, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal are among the many worst-hit throughout the present wave of Covid19.
The variety of lively coronavirus instances within the nation has surpassed the 16-lakh mark, the ministry’s knowledge up to date at 8 am confirmed.
Registering a gentle improve for the thirty eighth day in a row, the tally of lively COVID-19 instances has climbed to 16,79,740 within the nation, accounting for 11.
56 per cent of its complete caseload, whereas the nationwide COVID-19 restoration fee has dropped to 87.23 per cent.
The quantity of people that have recuperated from the illness has gone up to 1,26,71,220, whereas the case fatality fee has additional dropped to 1.
21 per cent, the information acknowledged.
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India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 final yr, the 30-lakh mark on August 23, the 40-lakh mark on September 5 and the 50-lakh mark on September 16.
It went previous 60 lakh on September 28 final yr, 70 lakh on October 11, 80 lakh on October 29, 90 lakh on November 20 and the one-crore mark on December 19.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), 26,49,72,022 samples have to this point been examined for the viral illness within the nation, together with 14,95,397 on Friday.
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