New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will conduct a review meeting on the Covid19 situation nationwide. The meeting will be inclusive of all the Chief Ministers of the state and is scheduled for the evening.The motive for this review meeting is regarding the rising concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
PM Modi will take stock of the pandemic situation across the country, Official sources told news agency Press Trust of India.
India has recorded 236 cases of COVID-19’s Omicron variant across 16 states and Union Territories so far, out of which 104 people have recovered or migrated, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated this morning.
In a communication to the states and Union Territories on Tuesday, the Centre said the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is at least thrice more transmissible than its Delta variant and asked them to “activate” war rooms, keep analysing even small trends and surges and keep taking strict and prompt containment action at the district and local levels.
There have been demands that the government allow booster doses of vaccines to be administered to those already fully inoculated against COVID-19, as has been done by several countries.
In the advisory, the Centre also asked states and union territories to step up scrutiny of Covid-19 infection trends and consider steps like night lockdowns. The Centre also suggested bans on large gatherings if more than 10% of all tests in a week turn positive or if the occupancy of hospital beds breaches 40% of capacity.
The ministry further added that greater foresight, data analysis, dynamic decision making and strict and prompt containment action is required at the local and district level.
While the cases in some states are seeing an upward trend, the nationwide daily tally is hovering below 8,000-mark.
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