Bengal CM Mamata likely to skip Covid review meeting with PM Modi today: Report

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is unlikely to attend as we speak’s meeting known as by PM Narendra Modi over Covid state of affairs. Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to attend the meeting with PM Modi: Sources-

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is predicted to skip a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi which is scheduled to be held as we speak to talk about the present standing of the Covid-19 pandemic within the nation, information company ANI reported on Thursday. Instead of the state chief minister, West Bengal’s chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay is likely to attend the meeting, the information company additionally reported.

PM Modi will work together with chief ministers of all states and union territories on Thursday because the nation is witnessing a pointy spike in every day Covid-19 circumstances. They will likely be discussing the Covid-19 state of affairs and the vaccination technique by way of video conferencing.

Banerjee’s resolution to skip the Covid-19 meet with PM Modi comes within the backdrop of ongoing meeting elections in West Bengal through which her ruling Trinamool Congress celebration (TMC) is engaged in a fierce battle with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

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Voting for 294-member meeting elections is underway in West Bengal. It is happening in eight phases and three phases have already taken place. It will conclude on April 29 and the counting will happen on May 2.

Meanwhile, India is reeling beneath the influence of the second wave of Covid-19 throughout which it’s seeing a spike in an infection worse than the earlier surge. On Thursday, the nation registered 126,789 contemporary circumstances within the final 24 hours, the Union ministry of well being and household welfare’s (MoHFW) dashboard confirmed.

Before this, the best spike was on April 5 when it reported as many as 103,558 circumstances. On April 7, the nation noticed an increase of 115,736 circumstances in a single day.

The nation’s an infection tally has risen to 12,928,574, the third-highest globally, behind the United States and Brazil respectively.