The Prime Minister will interact with Chief Ministers of the eight North-East states today on the Covid-19 situation. A government communiqué said, “PM will interact with CMs of Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, Sikkim, Manipur, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram at 11am via video conferencing on the Covid-19 situation in these states,”
The northeastern states have shown outpouring in cases of Covid-19 lately with several of the worst affected districts in terms of high caseload belonging to these states.
Sources said that 66 districts across the country are reporting high Covid-19 case positivity of 10% or more. Among them, 39 are from the northeast. Case positivity is the percentage of tests returning positive against the total number of tests conducted for an infection.
Arunachal Pradesh has the maximum number of districts. Among them 10 are reporting high case positivity, followed by Manipur, Meghalaya, Assam and Sikkim, Tripura, Mizoram and Nagaland with 1 district reporting more than 10% case positivity.
The general director of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Dr Balram Bhargava said that the second wave of Covid-19 was far from over and special focus was needed on districts that were reporting high case positivity. “We are encouraging the northeastern states to do more testing… there is heavy testing going on there…,” he said earlier.
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