Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi will hold a review meeting on the COVID-19 situation in the country today evening amid rising cases over the spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus.
PM Modi will review the pandemic situation across India, Official sources told to media.
India has recorded 236 cases of COVID-19’s Omicron variant across 16 states and Union Territories so far, out of which 104 people have recovered or migrated, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated this morning.
In a communication to the states and Union Territories on Tuesday, the Centre said the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is at least thrice more transmissible than its Delta variant and asked them to “activate” war rooms, keep analysing even small trends and surges and keep taking strict and prompt containment action at the district and local levels.