New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair a review meeting of the Covid-19 pandemic situation across the country at 4.30 pm on Sunday, according to media report from NDTV.
The review meeting comes amid a massive spike in the nationwide coronavirus tally with 1,59,632 fresh cases registered only in the last 24 hours.
The active caseload currently stood at 5,90,611, while the daily positivity touched 10.21 per cent.
PM Modi last held a Covid meeting on December 24, during which he stressed the need to remain ‘satark’ (alert) and ‘saavdhaan’ (vigilant’) as India scrambles to contain a third wave of infections.
“In view of the new variant, we should be ‘satark’ and ‘saavdhan’. The fight against the pandemic is not over and the need for continued adherence to COVID safe behaviour is of paramount importance even today,” the PM told officials.
Rising Covid cases also come as five states – including Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous – prepare to hold Assembly elections in 30 days from today.
The rising tide of cases is being driven, in part, by the Omicron variant, which the government has warned is up to three times more infectious than the Delta that wreaked havoc in the second wave.
The Delta variant, which accounted for over 60 per cent of India’s Covid cases before the third wave, remains active in the country as well, the government has said.
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