Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya will chair a virtual meeting with the health Ministers of five states and a union territory today to review the COVID-19 situation amid an exponential rise in cases. These states and UT are Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Goa, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
The meeting comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the pandemic situation across the country yesterday. The country had reported more than one lakh 50 thousand new COVID-19 cases yesterday and the case tally of the Omicron variant of the virus reached three thousand 623 in the country.