‘Priority is test, track and vaccinate’: Sonia Gandhi holds meeting with CMs of Congress-ruled states
During the meeting, she discussed the efforts to fight Covid-19 including the availability of vaccines, access to medicines and ventilators.
FollowCongress president Sonia Gandhi on Saturday asked party Chief Ministers to scale up testing, tracking and vaccinations at a Covid review meeting with party ruled states.
During the meeting, she discussed the efforts to fight Covid-19 including the availability of vaccines, access to medicines and ventilators.
"Congress President, Sonia Gandhi addresses a meeting of the Congress-ruled States and Congress Ministers from our alliance States to review the efforts to fight Covid-19 including the availability of vaccines, access to medicines and ventilators. Priority is test, track and vaccinate," informed Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala.
Maharashtra, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, where Congress is in power in alliance and on its own have the highest burden of daily Covid cases nationally.
Over 64% of all Covid deaths in the last 14 days have happened in Maharashtra and Punjab. Case positivity rate is as high as 25% in Maharashtra and 14% in Chhattisgarh as against the national average of around 5%.
Meanwhile, India's Covid-19 tally hit a record daily high since the outbreak of the pandemic with over 1.45 lakh new infections being reported in a span of 24 hours, taking the cumulative count to 1,32,05,926, according to the Union Health Ministry.
The single-day rise in coronavirus cases breached the 1 lakh mark for the fourth consecutive day.
According to the ministry, the country recorded 1,45,384 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours.
