New Delhi, March 17: Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his meeting with all states’ Chief Ministers on Wednesday expressed concern over rising coronavirus cases in some states and called for “quick and decisive steps”.
“India’s fight against Covid is being cited as an example in world, our recovery rate is over 96% and fatality rate among the lowest,” Modi told CMs.
“We will have to stop the emerging second peak of coronavirus immediately,” said Modi at the interaction.
“Most of the COVID-affected countries in world had to face several waves of Corona. In our country too, cases have suddenly started increasing in some states. CMs have also expressed concern. Test positivity rate in Maharashtra and MP is very high and number of cases are also rising,” said Modi after the meeting.
“Such an increase is being seen in many districts that had protected themselves so far and were kind of safe-zones. 70 districts of the country have seen an increase of more than 150% in new Covid cases last few weeks. If we don’t stop it here, a situation of nationwide outbreak can come up,” he said.
Prime Minister also touched upon issues of governance when it comes to vaccine administration and called for more vaccination centres and asked CMs to also come up with micro-containment zones wherever necessary. PM Modi called for ramping up Covid testing in smaller townn and warned CMs of spread of Coronavirus in villages.States like Kerala, UP, Chhattisgarh overly dependent on antigen tests; RT PCR tests should make for over 70% of overall testing, said PM.
As many as 28,903 new Covid-19 cases and 17,741 recoveries were reported in India in the last 24 hours, the Union Health Ministry informed on Wednesday.
With the addition of fresh infections, the total cases in the country reached 1,14,38,734, including 2,34,406 active cases and 1,10,45,284 recoveries.
The death toll stands at 1,59,044, including 188 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours.
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