PM Phones 4 Chief Ministers To Review Covid Situation In Their States

On Saturday the Prime Minister spoke to the leaders of four other states - Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke individually to the chief ministers of Punjab, Bihar, Karnataka and Uttarakhand to review the COVID-19 situation in each state, central government sources said. This morning Karnataka - one of the states worst affected by the second Covid wave - reported 47,563 new cases in 24 hours, to take its active caseload to nearly 5.5 lakh. Bihar reported 12,948 new cases, Punjab 9,042 and Uttarakhand 8,390 in the same period. Active cases in Punjab and Uttarakhand are over 70,000, and in Bihar it is around 1.13 lakh. Over the past days the Prime Minister has had separate phone calls with the leaders of the worst-affected states and UTs, and has been briefed about measures taken to break the chain of transmission in each.