NEW DELHI: Amid an unprecedented hike within the COVID-19 cases throughout the nation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will maintain a video convention with all chief ministers on Wednesday (March 17, 2021) to focus on the prevailing COVID-19 state of affairs and the measures required to comprise the pandemic.
During the assembly, the PM will even deliberate on the continuing mass vaccination drive throughout the nation. According to stories, the digital assembly might be held round 12.30 PM on March 17. The assembly has been known as within the wake of a large surge in coronavirus cases in a number of states the place night time curfew has been carried out and several other restrictions have been introduced.
The Prime Minister, who has been holding common communication with all the chief ministers of all states/UTs and prime well being officers for the reason that outbreak of the pandemic, had final interacted with them in January earlier than the launch of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme.
The PM had earlier introduced that the Centre will bear the bills of vaccinating almost three crore healthcare and frontline staff within the first spherical and prompt that public representatives, a reference to politicians, shouldn’t be a part of this preliminary train.Â
The mass vaccination drive is now in its second stage through which folks over 60 years of age, and people aged above 45 years and having comorbidities are being vaccinated.
On Monday, India registered 26,291 cases, an increase of 8,700 energetic cases. This can also be the very best single-day spike in 85 days, taking the nation’s an infection tally to 1,13,85,339, in accordance to Union Health Ministry information.Â
The variety of deaths due to the pandemic elevated to 1,58,725 with 118 extra fatalities being recorded in 24 hours. As many as 24 states and Union territories reported an increase in energetic cases, with Maharashtra, Kerala, Punjab and Karnataka registering a most variety of cases at 16,600, 1,800, 1,500 and 934 new cases, respectively.
According to the Health Ministry, a rising trajectory of every day new cases is seen in eight states – Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka.
There are a complete of two,19,262 energetic cases within the nation which is 1.93 per cent of the entire infections within the nation, whereas the restoration charge has dropped to 96.68 per cent, the info said.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan had mentioned negligence in the direction of COVID-19 acceptable behaviour is to be blamed for rising cases of COVID-19, including that few states account for greater than 80 per cent of the cases.
The Health Minister additionally urged folks to observe coronavirus acceptable behaviour like carrying masks and sustaining social distancing regardless of the provision of a vaccine in opposition to the illness.
