PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a meeting with all the Chief Ministers, over rising cases of COVID-19 via video-conferencing, wherein, he said we will have to immediately stop the emerging second wave of Corona, and for this, we will have to take quick and decisive steps.
“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 the last few weeks. If we don’t stop it here, a situation of a nationwide outbreak can come up,” he added.
PM Modi further said, “Over 10% vaccine wastage in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh. Vaccine wastage in UP is almost the same. It should be reviewed in states that why’s vaccine wastage happening? Monitoring must be done every evening & pro-active people should be contacted so that there’s no wastage.”
Over 10% #vaccine wastage in Telangana & Andhra Pradesh. Vaccine wastage in UP is almost the same. It should be reviewed in states that why’s vaccine wastage happening? Monitoring must be done every evening & pro-active people should be contacted so that there’s no wastage: PM pic.twitter.com/OTRRcM5WTV
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) March 17, 2021
The meeting comes amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases in several states where night curfew has been implemented and several restrictions have been announced.
Meanwhile, India recorded 28,903 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest daily rise since December 11 (30,254), with the total tally at 1.14 crore cases and 1,59,044 deaths. 188 deaths have been reported, the most in a day since January 15 (191).
In the last 24 hours, most cases have been reported from Maharashtra (17,864), Kerala (1,970), Punjab (1,463), Karnataka (1,135) and Gujarat (954).
📍#COVID19 India Tracker
(As on 17 March, 2021, 08:00 AM)➡️Confirmed cases: 1,14,38,734
➡️Recovered: 1,10,45,284 (96.56%)👍
➡️Active cases: 2,34,406 (2.05%)
➡️Deaths: 1,59,044 (1.39%)#IndiaFightsCorona#Unite2FightCorona#StaySafeVia @MoHFW_INDIA pic.twitter.com/Yb5JgSoyU4
— #IndiaFightsCorona (@COVIDNewsByMIB) March 17, 2021
On the vaccination front, 3.48 crore doses have been administered in the country.
