New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today hold several crucial marathon meetings via video conference to discuss present Covid-19 situation in the country and ways to strengthen the virus containment strategy.
The meetings were scheduled after the Prime Minister cancelled his election rallies in West Bengal.
At 9am, an internal meeting will be held where the Prime Minister will review the Covid-19 related situation across the country.
After that, Prime Minister Modi will interact with the Chief Ministers of those states, which are severely hit by coronavirus pandemic.
Around 12:30 pm, he will hold a comprehensive meeting with some leading oxygen manufacturers from the country to review the oxygen supply.
With four of the States worst hit by Covid battling a critical shortfall between demand and supply of oxygen in their hospitals, Modi told officials during a high-level meeting Thursday to ramp up production and the Union Home Ministry ordered all states to strictly abide by its distribution plan amid reports of some seizing supplies meant for others.
The Union government, meanwhile, said it would open registration from 28 April on the CoWin portal to enable all those above 18 years to join the vaccination drive from 1 May. ‘Only self-registration and advance appointments for people between 18-45 years of age. No walk-in allowed,’ it said.