Unlock 3.0: Prime Minister Modi will hold a meeting with all states chief ministers on July 27

New Delhi: To discuss strategy on Unlock 3.0  or to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold a meeting with chief ministers of all the states on July 27, Monday to discuss the pandemic situation in the country.

Although this is not the first time the Prime Minister will be discussing the COVID-19 situation with the Chief Ministers. Since April several meetings have been convened between PM and the state/UT heads. Last week, he had spoken with chief ministers of Bihar, Assam, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand over the telephone and took stock of the situation.

Meanwhile, the Centre has advised Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal & Assam to urgently ramp up testing, strictly implement containment plan and augment health infrastructure, during an interaction with the states that went on till late Friday evening. Notably, a high-level virtual review meeting was chaired by Cabinet Secretary with the Chief Secretaries and Health Secretaries of the nine states that are driving the present spurt of the active caseload in the country.